vesica

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (bladder).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/

Noun

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vesica (plural vesicas or vesicae)

  1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

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Interlingua

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Noun

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vesica (plural vesicas)

  1. bladder

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder
    vēsīca ūrīnāriaurinary bladder

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vēsīca vēsīcae
Genitive vēsīcae vēsīcārum
Dative vēsīcae vēsīcīs
Accusative vēsīcam vēsīcās
Ablative vēsīcā vēsīcīs
Vocative vēsīca vēsīcae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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(See also vessīca.)

  • Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
  • English: vesica
  • Romanian: vezică

References

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Further reading

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  • 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.