fovea

Etymology

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊviə

Noun

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)

1. (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
2. (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.we.a/, [ˈfɔ.we.a]

Noun

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension

1. pit
2. snare, pitfall

References

• fŏvĕa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 2. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fovea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fŏvĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 684/2
• “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (in Latin), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 450/1