placenta

See also: placentă

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA(key): /pləˈsɛntə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə

Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

  1. (anatomy) A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
  2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy) placenta

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Czech

Noun

placenta f

  1. placenta

Galician

Etymology

From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placente)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫaˈkɛn.ta]

Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

  1. a flat cake
  2. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī : placenta

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative placenta placentae
genitive placentae placentārum
dative placentae placentīs
accusative placentam placentās
ablative placentā placentīs
vocative placenta placentae

Descendants

Noun

placentā

  1. ablative singular of placenta

References

  • placenta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • placenta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • placenta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pla.ˈsẽ.tɐ/

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plǎtseːnta/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

  1. (anatomy) placenta

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin placenta, from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta
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