fovea
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See also: fovéa
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊviə
Noun[edit]
fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)
- (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
- Coordinate term: lacuna
- (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
Derived terms[edit]
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fovea
Declension[edit]
Inflection of fovea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | fovea | foveat | ||
genitive | fovean | foveoiden foveoitten | ||
partitive | foveaa | foveoita | ||
illative | foveaan | foveoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | fovea | foveat | ||
accusative | nom. | fovea | foveat | |
gen. | fovean | |||
genitive | fovean | foveoiden foveoitten foveain rare | ||
partitive | foveaa | foveoita | ||
inessive | foveassa | foveoissa | ||
elative | foveasta | foveoista | ||
illative | foveaan | foveoihin | ||
adessive | fovealla | foveoilla | ||
ablative | fovealta | foveoilta | ||
allative | fovealle | foveoille | ||
essive | foveana | foveoina | ||
translative | foveaksi | foveoiksi | ||
abessive | foveatta | foveoitta | ||
instructive | — | foveoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fovea f (plural fovee)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related.[1]
Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfo.u̯e.a/, [ˈfou̯eä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ve.a/, [ˈfɔːveä]
Noun[edit]
fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fovea | foveae |
Genitive | foveae | foveārum |
Dative | foveae | foveīs |
Accusative | foveam | foveās |
Ablative | foveā | foveīs |
Vocative | fovea | foveae |
Derived terms[edit]
- foveālis (Renaissance Latin)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- 2. FOVEA 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)
- “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, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 450/1
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
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