different between foveate vs fovea

English

Etymology

From fovea +? -ate (in various senses).

Adjective

foveate (comparative more foveate, superlative most foveate)

1. (anatomy, of a bone or organ) Having slight depressions or pits.

Synonyms

• (having depressions): pitted

Verb

foveate (third-person singular simple present foveates, present participle foveating, simple past and past participle foveated)

1. (transitive) To angle one's eyes such that the foveae are directed at (an object in one's field of view), the fovea being the portion of the retina responsible for sharp central vision.

Derived terms

• foveation
• refoveate

English

Etymology

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.vi.?/
• Rhymes: -??vi?

Noun

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)

1. (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
2. (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

Derived terms

• foveate
• parafoveal
• postfoveal
• pseudofovea

Related terms

• foveal

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?e?/, [?fo??e??]
• Rhymes: -o?e?
• Syllabification: fo?ve?a

Noun

fovea

1. (anatomy) fovea

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fovea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.ve.a/

Noun

fovea f (plural fovee)

1. fovea

   Synonym: fossetta

Derived terms

• foveale

Further reading

• fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?ow- (“pit, hole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.u?e.a/, [?f?u?eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.ve.a/, [?f??v??]

Noun

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension

1. pit, hole in the ground
2. snare, pitfall

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fove?lis (Renaissance Latin)

Descendants

References

• f?v?a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 2. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fovea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• f?v?a in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 684/2
• “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 450/1