uterus

See also: Uterus and utérus

English

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

uterus

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: u‧ter‧us

Noun

uterus (plural uteri or uteruses)

1. (anatomy) The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.

Synonyms

• matrix (now archaic)
• metra
• womb

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• cordiform uterus
• corpus uteri
• uterine
• uterus didelphys

Related terms

• hystera
• hysteria
• hysterectomy
• in utero

Descendants

• → Czech: uterus
• → Malay: uterus

Translations

womb — see womb

Further reading

• “uterus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “uterus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “uterus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• suture

Czech

Alternative forms

• uter

Etymology

Borrowed from English uterus, from Latin uterus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈutɛrus]
• Hyphenation: ute‧rus

Noun

uterus m inan

1. (anatomy) womb, uterus

   Synonym: děloha

Declension

Declension of uterus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	uterus	utery
genitive	uteru	uterů
dative	uteru	uterům
accusative	uterus	utery
vocative	utere	utery
locative	uteru	uterech
instrumental	uterem	utery

Further reading

• “uterus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “uterus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Indonesian

 

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

uterus

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin uterus, from Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊtɛrʊs]
• Rhymes: -rʊs, -ʊs, -s
• Hyphenation: utè‧rus

Noun

utèrus (plural uterus-uterus)

1. (anatomy, medicine, zoology) womb, uterus

   Synonyms: kandungan, peranakan, rahim

Alternative forms

• uterus /utərus/ (Standard Malay)

Related terms

(deprecated template usage)

• saudara (“sibling”, literally “from the same womb”)

Further reading

• “uterus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

 

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

uterus

Wikipedia ^la

Alternative forms

• uterum

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix).^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊ.tɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.t̪e.rus]

Noun

uterus m (genitive uterī); second declension

1. (anatomy) womb, uterus
2. fetus, newborn
3. belly, paunch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	uterus	uterī
genitive	uterī	uterōrum
dative	uterō	uterīs
accusative	uterum	uterōs
ablative	uterō	uterīs
vocative	utere	uterī

Related terms

• uterculus
• uterīnus

Descendants

• Catalan: úter
• English: uterus
  • → Czech: uterus
  • → Malay: uterus
• French: utérus
• Galician: útero
• Interlingua: utero
• Italian: utero
• Malay: uterus
• Piedmontese: ùter/üter
• Portuguese: útero
• Romanian: uter
• Sicilian: ùtiru
• Spanish: útero
• → Turkish: uterus

References

1. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282
2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “uterus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 647

Further reading

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

Malay

Etymology

From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /utərus/

Noun

uterus (Jawi spelling اوتروس, plural uterus-uterus)

1. (anatomy) Womb, uterus

Alternative forms

• utèrus /utɛrus/ (Indonesian)

Synonyms

• peranakan
• kandung
• kandungan
• rahim

Further reading

• “uterus” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin uterus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈte.ɾus/
• Hyphenation: u‧te‧rus

Noun

uterus (definite accusative uterusu, plural uteruslar)

1. (anatomy) womb, uterus

   Synonyms: döl yatağı, (obsolete) meşime, rahim

Further reading

• “uterus”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “uterus”, in Nişanyan Sözlük