fetus

== English == === Alternative forms === foetus (Commonwealth) fœtus (dated) phoetus, phœtus, faetus, fætus (obsolete) === Etymology === A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfiːtəs/ Rhymes: -iːtəs === Noun === fetus (plural fetuses or fetus or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstruction) fetii) (American spelling, also Canada, Australia) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal. 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2 Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall. A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation. (archaic) A neonate. ==== Usage notes ==== The form fetus is the primary spelling in the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth nations. The nominative and accusative plural of fētus in Latin is fētūs with lengthened second vowel. The hypercorrect plurals feti and fetii are thus comparable to the hypercorrect plural octopi of octopus (the Ancient Greek plural of octopus is octopodes). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === === References === Health Online === Further reading === fetus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === EF-Tus, UTFSE, fuets == Catalan == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin fētus. First attested in c. 1900. Doublet of feda. === Pronunciation === === Noun === fetus m (invariable) fetus ==== Related terms ==== fetal === References === === Further reading === “fetus”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “fetus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “fetus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Indonesian == === Noun === fetus (plural fetus-fetus) foetus == Latin == === Alternative forms === foetus === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.tus] === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Italic *fētos, from earlier *θētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-to-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”) + *-tós, see also Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck, suckle”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem, “to suck mother's milk”), Lithuanian žįsti (“to suckle, nurse”), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti, “to breastfeed, suckle”). ==== Adjective ==== fētus (feminine fēta, neuter fētum); first/second-declension adjective pregnant, full of young of one who has recently given birth, of one that has newly delivered; nursing (figuratively) fruitful, fertile, productive, teeming with, full of, big ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== fēta === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Italic *fētus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-tu-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”) + *-tus; alternatively, formed within Italic, equivalent to a verb *feō +‎ *-tus (Latin -tus (forming action nouns)). ==== Noun ==== fētus m (genitive fētūs); fourth declension (rare) a bearing, birth, bringing forth (chiefly poetic) offspring, young, progeny (of plants) fruit, product; bearing, produce (figuratively) growth, production (New Latin) a fetus ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Related terms === === References === === Further reading === “fētus (adjective)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fētus (noun)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fētus (adjective)”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “fētus (noun)”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “fetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “fetus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 246 == Romanian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin fētus. Doublet of făt. === Noun === fetus m (plural fetuși) fetus ==== Declension ==== == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin foetus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fěːtus/ Hyphenation: fe‧tus === Noun === fétus m inan (Cyrillic spelling фе́тус) fetus ==== Declension ====