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fetus
English
Alternative forms
- (UK) foetus
- (UK, rare) fœtus
- (obsolete, erroneous) phoetus, phœtus
- (obsolete, erroneous) faetus, fætus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?tus (“offspring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?t?s/
- Rhymes: -i?t?s
Noun
fetus (plural fetuses or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstructed) fetii)
- (Australia, Canada, US) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
- 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
- Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.
- 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
- (Australia, Canada, US) A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
- The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
Usage notes
- The form fetus is the primary spelling in the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth nations.
Derived terms
- fetal
Translations
See also
- embryo
References
- Health Online
Anagrams
- EF-Tus, UTFSE, fuets
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin f?tus, attested from circa 1900.
Noun
fetus m (plural fetus)
- fetus
Related terms
- fetal
References
Further reading
- “fetus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fetus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fetus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Alternative forms
- foetus
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?(y)-, see also Sanskrit ???? (dhayati), Avestan ????????????????????? (da?nu), Old Armenian ???? (diem), Lithuanian ž?sti and Old Church Slavonic ????? (doiti).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?fe?.tus/, [?fe?t??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fe.tus/, [?f??t?us]
Adjective
f?tus (feminine f?ta, neuter f?tum); first/second-declension adjective
- pregnant, full of young
- fruitful, productive
- youthful, young
- of one who has recently given birth; nursing
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- fetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Noun
f?tus m (genitive f?t?s); fourth declension
- A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
- Offspring, young, progeny.
- Fruit, produce.
- (figuratively) Growth, production.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- fetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fetus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin foetus
Noun
fetus m (plural fetu?i)
- fetus
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??tus/
- Hyphenation: fe?tus
Noun
fétus m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- fetus
Declension
fetus From the web:
- what fetus looks like
- what fetuses are capable of before birth
- what fetus means
- what fetus do in the womb
- what fetus means in latin
- what is a fetus in pregnancy
- what is an unborn fetus
- what unborn babies do in the womb
larva
English
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??.v?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l??.v?/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -??(r)v?
- Homophone: lava (in non-rhotic accents)
Noun
larva (plural larvas or larvae or larvæ)
- An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
- An animal in the aforementioned stage.
- A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
Usage notes
Although the plural larvas is somewhat common, it is regarded by some as incorrect.
Translations
Anagrams
- Raval, alvar, arval, lavra
Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?.va/
Noun
larva
- plural of larvë
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?la?.v?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?lar.b?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?la?.va/
Noun
larva f (plural larves)
- larva
Related terms
- larval
- larvari
Further reading
- “larva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “larva” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “larva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “larva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?larva]
- Rhymes: -arva
- Hyphenation: lar?va
Noun
larva f
- larva
Declension
Galician
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Noun
larva f (plural larvas)
- larva
Related terms
- larval
Further reading
- “larva” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Noun
larva f (plural larve)
- larva, grub
- Synonym: bruco
- (figuratively) shadow, skeleton
Derived terms
- larvale
- larvato
- larvicida
Further reading
- larva in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from L?r (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?la?r.u?a/, [???ä?ru?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?lar.va/, [?l?rv?]
- (Plautine) IPA(key): /?la?.ru.a/, [???ä??uä]
- (Plautine) IPA(key): /?la.ru.a/, [?l???u?]
Noun
l?rva f (genitive l?rvae); first declension
- ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon, devil
- hobgoblin, goblin
- (figuratively) horrific mask
- (figuratively) skeleton
Declension
First-declension noun.
Quotations
- circa 200 B.C., Plautus, Captivi, Act 3, Scene 4, line 66:
- Larvae stimulant virum.
- The ghosts rouse the man.
- Larvae stimulant virum.
Derived terms
- l?rv?lis
- l?rv?ns
- l?rv?
Descendants
Verb
larv?
- second-person singular present active imperative of larv? (enchant!)
References
- larva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- larva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- larva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “l?rua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 328
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- larven
Noun
larva m or f
- definite feminine singular of larve
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- larven
Noun
larva m or f
- definite feminine singular of larve
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Noun
larva f (plural larvas)
- larva (early growth stage of some insects and amphibians)
Related terms
- larval
- larvar
- larvário
Further reading
- “larva” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?larva]
Noun
larva f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of larv?
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?ba/, [?la?.??a]
Noun
larva f (plural larvas)
- larva
- (obsolete) ghost
Related terms
- larval
- larvario
Further reading
- “larva” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin larva (“facemask”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Verb
larva (present larvar, preterite larvade, supine larvat, imperative larva)
- (reflexive) to behave flippantly, childishly or ridiculously; to tramp, to footle
Conjugation
Related terms
- larv
- larvig
Anagrams
- Alvar, lavar, valar
larva From the web:
- what larvae
- what larvae eat
- what larvae is in my house
- what larva means
- what larvae live in water
- what larvae is in my pond
- what larvae do ants eat
- what larvae is in my pool
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