different between vesica vs vesicae

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?s?ca (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?s?k?/, IPA^(key): /?vi?s?k?/

Noun

vesica (plural vesicae)

1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cavies

Interlingua

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas)

1. bladder

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?e??si?.ka/, [u?e??s?i?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve?si.ka/, [v??s?i?k?]

Noun

v?s?ca f (genitive v?s?cae); first declension

1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• v?s?c?
• v?s?cula

Descendants

• ? English: vesica
• ? Romanian: vezic?
• ? Vulgar Latin: *v?ss?ca
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: bishicã, bishãcã
    • Romanian: b??ic?, be?ic?
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: vexiga
    • Galician: vexiga
    • Mozarabic: [script needed] (bešíka)
    • Portuguese: bexiga
    • Spanish: vejiga
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vescica
    • Sardinian: buscica, bussica, piscica, busuca
    • Sicilian: viscica, vuscica, buscica
    • Venetian: vesiga
  • Old French: vessie, vecie
    • Middle French: vessie
      • French: vessie
    • Norman: vessie
    • Walloon: vexheye
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: veixiga
    • Occitan: vessiga, veishiga
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: vissie
    • Romansch: vaschia, vischigia, vascheia, vschia
  • ? Albanian: fshikë

References

• vesica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vesica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vesica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Noun

vesicae

1. plural of vesica

Latin

Noun

v?s?cae

1. nominative plural of v?s?ca
2. genitive singular of v?s?ca
3. dative singular of v?s?ca
4. vocative plural of v?s?ca