cadaver

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/, /kəˈdɑːv.ə(ɹ)/, /kəˈdeɪ.və(ɹ)/ (US) IPA(key): /kəˈdævɚ/ Hyphenation: ca‧dav‧er === Noun === cadaver (plural cadavers or cadavera) (literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. [from late 14th c.] ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:corpse, Thesaurus:body body corpse ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== cadence ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From the Latin verb cadō (“to fall”), as a euphemism for dying, "the fallen one". This etymology is found as early as ca. 200 C.E. in the writings of Tertullian. The above derivation, refined to be from an active perfect participle *kadā-wes-, is tentatively accepted by de Vaan, albeit with reservations. Other theories include a connection to Sanskrit कलेवर (kalevara, “corpse”). Compare typologically Russian па́даль (pádalʹ) (akin to па́дать (pádatʹ)), Ancient Greek πτῶμα (ptôma) (< πίπτω (píptō)). A folk etymology derives cadaver syllabically from the Latin expression caro data vermibus (flesh given to worms). This etymology, more popular in Romance countries, can be traced back as early as the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈdaː.wɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈdaː.ver] === Noun === cadāver n (genitive cadāveris); third declension corpse, cadaver, carcass Synonyms: corpus, fūnus, mors, caedēs ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== cadāverōsus (seemingly dead) ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “cadaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cadaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cadaver”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cadaver”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “cadaver”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin