pleura

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊə.ɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊɹ.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura.

Noun

pleura (plural pleuras or pleurae)

1. (anatomy) Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.

   Meronyms: cervical pleura, costal pleura, diaphragmatic pleura, mediastinal pleura, parietal pleura, visceral pleura

   • 1856, William Youatt, ‎William Charles Linnaeus Martin, ‎A. Stevens, The Hog (page 120)

     The lungs […] may be said to be inclosed in separate bags, or to have distinct pleuras.

2. (zootomy) A lateral part in an animal body or structure.

Derived terms

• pleural
• pleuretic
• pulmonary pleura

Related terms

• pleurisy

Translations

serous membrane that covers the lungs and thorax

• Bulgarian: плевра f (plevra)
• Catalan: pleura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸膜 (zh) (xiōngmó)

• Czech: pohrudnice f
• Esperanto: pleŭro
• Finnish: keuhkopussi (fi)
• French: plèvre (fr) f
• Galician: teaz f
• Greek: υπεζωκώς (el) m (ypezokós)
• Italian: pleura (it) f
• Japanese: 胸膜 (きょうまく, kyōmaku)
• Kazakh: өкпеқап (ökpeqap)
• Maori: kiriuhi pūkahu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цээжний гялтан (ceežnii gjaltan), цээжний хальс (ceežnii xalʹs) (China)

• Polish: opłucna (pl) f
• Portuguese: pleura f
• Russian: пле́вра (ru) f (plévra)
• Serbo-Croatian: porebrica (sh) f, pogrudnica f
• Spanish: pleura (es)
• Tagalog: bambambaga
• Vietnamese: màng phổi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pleura

1. plural of pleuron

References

• “pleura”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pleura”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• epural, perula

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

pleura

1. third-person singular past historic of pleurer

Anagrams

• pâleur

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”).

Noun

pleura f (plural pleure)

1. (anatomy) pleura

Related terms

Related terms

• pleura costale
• pleura diaframmatica
• pleurale
• pleura mediastinica
• pleura parietale
• pleura viscerale
• pleurico
• pleurite

Anagrams

• lupare

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλευρᾱ́ (pleurā́, “a rib, a side of something”).

Pronunciation

• pleura: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpleu̯.ra/, [ˈplɛːu̯rä]
• pleurā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpleu̯.ra/, [ˈplɛːu̯rä]

Noun

pleura f (genitive pleurae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) The pleura.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pleura	pleurae
genitive	pleurae	pleurārum
dative	pleurae	pleurīs
accusative	pleuram	pleurās
ablative	pleurā	pleurīs
vocative	pleura	pleurae

Descendants

• → English: pleura
• → French: pleura
• → Italian: pleura
• → Portuguese: pleura
• → Spanish: pleura

Noun

pleurā f

1. ablative singular of pleura

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈplew.ɾɐ/ [ˈpleʊ̯.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈplew.ɾɐ/ [ˈpleʊ̯.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈplew.ɾa/ [ˈpleʊ̯.ɾa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈplew.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: pleu‧ra

Noun

pleura f (plural pleuras)

1. (anatomy) pleura (serous membrane that covers the lungs and thorax)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleuɾa/ [ˈpleu̯.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -euɾa
• Syllabification: pleu‧ra

Noun

pleura f (plural pleuras)

1. (anatomy) pleura

Further reading

• “pleura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10