humerus

See also: humérus

English

Etymology

From Late Latin humerus, from umerus. Cognate with Spanish hombro (“shoulder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hyo͞o'mərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹɪs/
• Homophone: humorous

Noun

humerus (plural humeri)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the upper arm.
   • 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 76:

     Jojo was fine, however—well, she had a fractured humerus and needed to stay overnight, but it could’ve been a lot worse.

Synonyms

• armbone

Translations

bone of the upper arm

• Arabic: عَضُد (ar) m (ʕaḍud)

  Egyptian Arabic: عضد m (ʕaḍud)

• Bulgarian: раменна кост f (ramenna kost)
• Catalan: húmer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肱骨 (zh) (gōnggǔ)

• Czech: kost pažní f
• Danish: overarmsknogle c
• Dutch: opperarmbeen (nl)
• Esperanto: humero
• Finnish: olkaluu (fi)
• French: humérus (fr) m
• Galician: úmero (gl) m
• German: Oberarmknochen (de) m
• Greek: βραχιόνιο οστό n (vrachiónio ostó)
• Hungarian: felkarcsont (hu)
• Italian: omero (it) m
• Japanese: 上腕骨 (ja) (じょうわんこつ, jōwankotsu)
• Khiamniungan Naga: phǖshāng-ù
• Korean: 위팔뼈 (ko) (wipalppyeo), 상완골(上腕骨) (sang'wan'gol)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê baskê, hestiyê bazû

• Maori: pūkaka, peke
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бугалга (mn) (bugalga), атгаал яс (atgaal jas) (China)

• Portuguese: úmero (pt) m
• Russian: плечева́я кость f (plečevája kostʹ)
• Spanish: húmero (es) m
• Swedish: överarmsben (sv) n
• Tagalog: kabiyasan, biyas ng kamay
• Thai: กระดูกต้นแขน (grà-dùuk-dtôn-kɛ̌ɛn)
• Turkish: karaca kemiği (tr), kol kemiği, pazı kemiği
• Vietnamese: xương cánh tay

See also

• funny bone

Further reading

• humerus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.me.rus/, [ˈhʊmɛrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.me.rus/, [ˈuːmerus]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu.me.rus/, [ˈʊmɛrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.me.rus/, [ˈuːmerus]

Noun

humerus m (genitive humerī); second declension

1. Alternative form of umerus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	humerus	humerī
genitive	humerī	humerōrum
dative	humerō	humerīs
accusative	humerum	humerōs
ablative	humerō	humerīs
vocative	humere	humerī

References

• humerus 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)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French humérus.

Noun

humerus n (uncountable)

1. humerus

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	humerus	humerusul
genitive-dative	humerus	humerusului
vocative	humerusule