femur vs thighbone what difference
what is difference between femur and thighbone
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
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
- femoral
Translations
References
- Webster import
Anagrams
- fumer
Latin
Etymology 1
Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin can be found.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛmʊɾ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]
Noun
femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension
- thigh
- (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
- (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).
Derived terms
- femorāle
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeːmʊɾ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]
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’s 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
From French fémur.
Noun
femur n (plural femururi)
- femur
Declension
English
Etymology
From late Middle English. Equivalent to thigh + bone.
Noun
thighbone (plural thighbones)
- (anatomy) The bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee in humans; the femur.
Translations
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