nucha
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka, nuke (“spinal cord”),[1] borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”).[2][3] Doublet of nuque.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnjuːkə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈn(j)ukə/
- Hyphenation: nu‧cha
Noun
[edit]nucha (plural nuchae)
- (anatomy, obsolete) The spinal cord.
- (anatomy, zoology, dated, rare) The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “nucha, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ “nucha, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2003.
- ^ “nucha”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From either Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ, “spinal marrow”) or Arabic نُقْرَة (nuqra, “hollow of the neck”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnu.kʰa/, [ˈnʊkʰä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnu.ka/, [ˈnuːkä]
Noun
[edit]nucha f (genitive nuchae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nucha | nuchae |
Genitive | nuchae | nuchārum |
Dative | nuchae | nuchīs |
Accusative | nucham | nuchās |
Ablative | nuchā | nuchīs |
Vocative | nucha | nuchae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: nuca
- → Middle English: nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka
- English: nucha
- → Old French: nuche
- → Italian: nuca
- → Portuguese: nuca
- → Spanish: nuca
Further reading
[edit]- Hyrtl, Joseph (1879) Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie[1] (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 188–193
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