different between vesica vs vesicle

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

Etymology

From Middle French vesicule, from Latin v?s?cula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?s?k?l/, /?vi?s?k?l/
• Hyphenation: ves?i?cle
• Homophone: vesical (for some pronunciations)

Noun

vesicle (plural vesicles)

1. (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
2. A small bladder-like cell or cavity; a vesicula.
3. (anatomy) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
4. (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
5. (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 51:

     It frequently contains holes, or vesicles, especially nearer the surface of a flow where gas has escaped.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vesica
• vesication
• vesicula
• vesicular
• vesiculation

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