femur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]femur (plural femurs or femora)
- (anatomy) A thighbone.
- (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
- (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]thighbone — see thighbone
segment of insect’s leg
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Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found. De Vaan and Lubotsky tentatively support Steinbauer's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“arc, bow”); this is semantically attractive, but the hypothetical change from *-nw- to *-(n)m- from Proto-Indo-European to Latin is strange.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛmʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]
Noun
[edit]femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension
- thigh
- thighbone
- (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
- (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | femur | femina femora |
genitive | feminis femoris |
feminum femorum |
dative | feminī femorī |
feminibus femoribus |
accusative | femur | femina femora |
ablative | femine femore |
feminibus femoribus |
vocative | femur | femina femora |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “femur, -inis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 210
- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “dhánus-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 161-2
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeːmʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]
Verb
[edit]fēmur
References
[edit]- “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- femur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]femur n (plural femururi)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | femur | femurul | femururi | femururile | |
genitive-dative | femur | femurului | femururi | femururilor | |
vocative | femurule | femururilor |
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