vesica

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/ === Noun === vesica (plural vesicas or vesicae) (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === cavies == Interlingua == === Noun === vesica (plural vesicas) bladder == Latin == === Alternative forms === vessīca, vēnsīca === Etymology === Possibly from an onomatopoeic root related to vissiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [weːˈsiː.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [veˈs̬iː.ka] === Noun === vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== vēsīca piscis vēsīcō vēsīcula ==== Descendants ==== (See also vessīca.) Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois) Occitan: vesiga (Ségala) → English: vesica → Romanian: vezică === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 341 === Further reading === “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vesica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.