different between foremen vs meatus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??(?)m?n/, /?f??(?)m?n/

Noun

foremen

1. plural of foreman

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin me?tus (“way, path, passage”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mi?e?.t?s/

• (plural) (General American) IPA^(key): /mi?e?.t?s/, /mi?e??tus/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s

Noun

meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)

1. (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.

   Hyponyms: acoustic meatus, urinary meatus

2. (anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.

   Synonym: ear canal

Derived terms

• meatal
• meato-

Translations

References

• “meatus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “meatus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• ear canal
• foramen

Anagrams

• Matsue, autems, mutase

Latin

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me?a?.tus/, [me?ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me?a.tus/, [m????t?us]

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of me? (“to go, to pass”).

Noun

me?tus m (genitive me?t?s); fourth declension

1. A going, passing, motion, course.
2. A way, path, passage.
   1. The avenues of sensation in the body.

Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: meatus
• ? Italian: meato
• ? Spanish: meato

Participle

me?tus (feminine me?ta, neuter me?tum); first/second-declension participle

1. Gone, passed, traversed, having been passed.

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me?a?.tu?s/, [me?ä?t?u?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me?a.tus/, [m????t?us]

Noun

me?t?s

1. nominative plural of me?tus
2. genitive singular of me?tus
3. accusative plural of me?tus
4. vocative singular/plural of me?tus

References

• meatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette