foetus

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === foetus (plural foetuses or foetus or (hypercorrect) foeti) (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of fetus. ==== 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. Sometimes considered less correct than fetus and suggested to be abandoned. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Anagrams === fouets == Dutch == === Etymology === From Latin fētus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈføːtʏs/ Hyphenation: foe‧tus === Noun === foetus n or m (plural foetussen, diminutive foetusje n) fetus ==== Derived terms ==== feut == Latin == === Etymology === Introduced after 600 C.E. by Isidorus (c. 560–636 C.E.), who wrote “Etymologies”, much of which was erroneous, partly because his Latin was, as described, “not pure”, and appears to have been misled by the Ancient Greek φοιτός (phoitós), itself a later corruption of φυτός (phutós, “fertile”). === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.tus] === Adjective === foetus (feminine foeta, neuter foetum); first/second-declension adjective alternative form of fētus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Noun === foetus m (genitive foetūs); fourth declension alternative form of fētus ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. === References === === Further reading === “foetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “foetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.