different between meatus vs fovea

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

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