caecum

See also: cæcum

English

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Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• cæcum (obsolete)
• cecum (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caecum (“invisible, hidden”), clipping of intestīnum caecum (“blind gut”), translation of Ancient Greek τῠφλὸν ἔντερον (tŭphlòn énteron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.kəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːkəm

Noun

caecum (plural caecums or caeca)

1. (anatomy) A cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct), especially a blind pouch connected to the large intestine between the ileum and the colon.

   Synonym: blind gut

   • 1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:

     After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation.

Derived terms

• caecal
• caecally
• caecitis
• caeco-, caec-
• caecostomy
• caecotrophy
• mesocaecum
• punctum caecum
• pyloric caecum

Translations

blind pouch connected to the large intestine

Afrikaans: sekum (af) Armenian: կույր աղիք (kuyr aġikʻ) Asturian: ciegu (ast) Azerbaijani: korbağırsaq Bulgarian: сляпо черво n (sljapo červo) Catalan: cec (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 盲腸 / 盲肠 (zh) (mángcháng) Czech: slepé střevo (cs) n Danish: blindtarm (da) c Finnish: umpisuoli (fi) French: cæcum (fr) m, cécum (fr) m Galician: cego (gl) m, intestino cego m, paiolo (gl) m Georgian: ბრმა ნაწლავი (ka) (brma nac̣lavi) German: Blinddarm (de) m Hungarian: vakbél (hu) Icelandic: botnristill (is) m Ido: ceko (io) Irish: caochán (ga) m Japanese: 盲腸 (ja) (もうちょう, mōchō) Kumyk: сокъур ичек (soqur içek) Maori: kopa whēkau Norwegian: Bokmål: blindtarm m Nynorsk: blindtarm m Polish: jelito ślepe (pl) n Portuguese: ceco (pt) m Romanian: cec (ro) n, cecum (ro) n Russian: слепа́я кишка́ (ru) f (slepája kišká) Slovak: slepé črevo (sk) n Spanish: ciego (es) m, intestino ciego (es) m Swedish: blindtarm (sv) c Turkish: kör bağırsak (tr), çekum (tr) Ukrainian: сліпа кишка f (slipa kyška) Vietnamese: ruột tịt, manh tràng (vi) Welsh: coluddyn dall m

References

• “caecum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cecum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• ceacum

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

caecum f (plural caecums)

1. alternative spelling of cæcum

Further reading

• “caecum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkae̯.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.kum]

Etymology 1

From caecus (“having no light; uncertain, doubtful”).

Noun

caecum n (genitive caecī); second declension

1. (poetic) Uncertainty, obscurity.

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	caecum	caeca
genitive	caecī	caecōrum
dative	caecō	caecīs
accusative	caecum	caeca
ablative	caecō	caecīs
vocative	caecum	caeca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

caecum

1. inflection of caecus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

• “caecus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press