fémur

See also: femur, Femur, fèmur, and fêmur

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe.myʁ/

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Noun

fémur m (plural fémurs)

1. femur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fumer

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin femur.

Noun

fémur m (plural fémures)

1. (anatomy) femur

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.muɾ/

• Hyphenation: fé‧mur

Noun

fémur m (plural fémures)

1. European Portuguese standard spelling of fêmur.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfemuɾ/ [ˈfe.muɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -emuɾ
• Syllabification: fé‧mur

Noun

fémur m (plural fémures)

1. femur

Further reading

• “fémur”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10