different between placenta vs acetabulum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?-s?n't?, IPA^(key): /pl??s?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

1. (anatomy) A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

Synonyms

• afterbirth

Derived terms

• placental
• placentary

Translations

Anagrams

• Tlapanec, pantacle

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy) placenta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pl??sen.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pla?sen.ta/

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta). Doublet of pala?inka.

Noun

placenta f

1. placenta

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pla??s?n.ta?/
• Hyphenation: pla?cen?ta
• Rhymes: -?nta?

Noun

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

1. placenta

   Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

Derived terms

• placentadier

Related terms

• moederkoek

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: plasenta

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Interlingua

Noun

placenta (plural placentas)

1. placenta

Related terms

• placental

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placente)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Related terms

• placenta previa
• placentare

Anagrams

• placante

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), ????????? (plakoúnta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis), ??????? (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from ???? (pláx, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pla?ken.ta/, [p??ä?k?n?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pla?t??en.ta/, [pl??t???n?t??]

Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

1. a round phyllo cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.
2. a cake of any type
3. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uter?: placenta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Quotations

Descendants

• Aromanian: plãtsintã
• Romanian: pl?cint? (see there for further descendants)

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

Noun

placent?

1. ablative singular of placenta

References

• placenta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• placenta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• placenta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Further reading

• Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.?s?.t?/

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta). Doublet of pala?inka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?t?se?nta/
• Hyphenation: pla?cen?ta

Noun

plàc?nta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. (anatomy) placenta

Declension

Synonyms

• (placenta): p?steljica

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (plakóenta), accusative of ???????? (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ac?t?bulum (“a little saucer for vinegar”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æs.??tæb.j?l.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æs.??tæb.j?l.?m/

Noun

acetabulum (plural acetabula or acetabulums)

1. (anatomy) The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.
2. (zoology) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
3. (zoology) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
4. (zoology) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
5. (zoology) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
6. (historical, Ancient Rome) A vinegar cup.
7. (historical, Ancient Rome) The socket of the hipbone.
8. (historical, Ancient Rome) A measure of about one eighth of a pint.

Synonyms

• (bony cup of the pelvis): cotyloid cavity

Derived terms

• acetabular
• acetabulate

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From ac?tum (“vinegar”) +? -bulum (“a vessel for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ke??ta?.bu.lum/, [äke??t?ä?b??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.t??e?ta.bu.lum/, [?t????t???bulum]

Noun

ac?t?bulum n (genitive ac?t?bul?); second declension

1. a shallow cup for vinegar; an acetabulum
2. any cup-shaped vessel
3. (anatomy) the socket of a hipbone
4. (zootomy) the suckers or cavities in the arms of polypi
5. (botany) the cup of a flower

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• acetabulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acetabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• acetabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acetabulum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acetabulum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin