femur

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ) Hyphenation: fe‧mur === Noun === 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 ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === fumer == Latin == === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Alternative forms ==== femen (rare) ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɛ.mʊr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.mur] ==== Noun ==== femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension thigh thighbone (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeː.mʊr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.mur] ==== Verb ==== fēmur first-person plural present active subjunctive of for ==== References ==== “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, 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 == === Etymology === Borrowed from French fémur. === Noun === femur n (plural femururi) femur ==== Declension ====