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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Pronunciation
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
- vesica biliaris
- vesica fellea
- vesical
- vesica piscis
- vesica urinaria
- vesicle (-le diminutive)
- vesicula (-ula diminutive via Latin)
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Interlingua
Noun
vesica (plural vesicas)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.
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
Descendants
(See also vessīca.)
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 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.
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