different between placenta vs funiculus

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

From Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis (“rope, cord”) +? -culus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fj??n?k.j?l.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fj??n?k.j?l.?s/, /f??n?k.j?l.?s/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?s

Noun

funiculus (plural funiculi)

1. (anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord
2. (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta

Translations

References

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

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from f?nis (“cord, rope”) +? -culus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fu??ni.ku.lus/, [fu??n?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fu?ni.ku.lus/, [fu?ni?kulus]

Noun

f?niculus m (genitive f?nicul?); second declension

1. A slender rope, cord.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cord): f?nicula, l?num, vinculum

Related terms

Descendants

References

• funiculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• funiculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funiculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• funiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette