different between stapes vs ossicle

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin stap?s (“stirrup”). Doublet of step.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ste?.pi?z/

Noun

stapes (plural stapes or stapedes)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) A small stirrup-shaped innermost ossicle of the middle ear of mammals, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.

   Synonym: stirrup

Related terms

• stapedial
• stapedo-, staped-

Translations

References

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

See also

• bone

Anagrams

• Pestas, aspets, et pass., pastes, sepats, spates, speats

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.p?s/

Noun

stapes m (plural stapes)

1. stapes

Synonyms

• étrier

Anagrams

• pestas

Latin

Alternative forms

• stapia (rare)

Etymology

From a Germanic source, possibly Frankish *stap or Old High German stapf, staph (“step, stirrup”), both from Proto-Germanic *stapiz (“a step, rung (of a ladder)”). More at step.

Alternatively: Late Latin; possibly from st? (“to stand”) +? p?s (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta.pe?s/, [?s?t?äpe?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.pes/, [?st???p?s]

Noun

stap?s m (genitive stapedis); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. stirrup
2. (anatomy) stapes (bone in the middle ear)

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• stapedius (adjective)

Descendants

References

• stapes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stapes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• stapes in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Etymology

Late 16th century, from Latin ossiculum (“little bone, ossicle”) from os (“bone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?k?l/

Noun

ossicle (plural ossicles)

1. (anatomy) A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.

   The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles.

   • 1836, William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, vol. 1, William Pickering, p. 174:

     The eyeballs were surrounded by a ring of bones, the sclerotic ossicle, which probably protected their eyes when diving abruptly for prey.

2. (zoology) Bone-like joint or plate, especially:
   1. one of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes;
   2. one of the hard articuli or joints of the stem or branches of a crinoid or encrinite;
   3. one of the several small hard chitinous parts or processes of the gastric skeleton of crustaceans, as in the stomach of a lobster or crawfish.
   4. The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

See os.

Translations

See also

• bone
• incus
• malleus
• stapes

Anagrams

• loessic, scolies

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /u?si.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?si.kle/

Noun

ossicle m (plural ossicles)

1. ossicle (small bone)