fovea
See also: fovéa
English
Etymology
From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/
- Rhymes: -əʊviə
Noun
fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)
- (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
- (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
Derived terms
- foveate
- parafoveal
- postfoveal
- pseudofovea
Related terms
- foveal
See also
- fossa
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin fovea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfoʋeɑ/, [ˈfo̞ʋe̞ɑ]
- Rhymes: -oʋeɑ
- Syllabification(key): fo‧ve‧a
Noun
fovea
- (anatomy) fovea
Declension
| Inflection of fovea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | fovea | foveat | |
| genitive | fovean | foveoiden foveoitten | |
| partitive | foveaa | foveoita | |
| illative | foveaan | foveoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | fovea | foveat | |
| accusative | nom. | fovea | foveat |
| gen. | fovean | ||
| genitive | fovean | foveoiden foveoitten foveainrare | |
| partitive | foveaa | foveoita | |
| inessive | foveassa | foveoissa | |
| elative | foveasta | foveoista | |
| illative | foveaan | foveoihin | |
| adessive | fovealla | foveoilla | |
| ablative | fovealta | foveoilta | |
| allative | fovealle | foveoille | |
| essive | foveana | foveoina | |
| translative | foveaksi | foveoiksi | |
| instructive | — | foveoin | |
| abessive | foveatta | foveoitta | |
| comitative | — | foveoineen | |
| Possessive forms of fovea (type kulkija) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | foveani | foveamme |
| 2nd person | foveasi | foveanne |
| 3rd person | foveansa | |
Italian
Etymology
From Latin fovea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.ve.a/
- Rhymes: -ɔvea
- Hyphenation: fò‧ve‧a
Noun
fovea f (plural fovee)
- fovea
- Synonym: fossetta
Derived terms
- foveale
Further reading
- fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.u̯e.a/, [ˈfou̯eä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ve.a/, [ˈfɔːveä]
Noun
fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension
- pit, hole in the ground
- snare, pitfall
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fovea | foveae |
| Genitive | foveae | foveārum |
| Dative | foveae | foveīs |
| Accusative | foveam | foveās |
| Ablative | foveā | foveīs |
| Vocative | fovea | foveae |
Derived terms
- foveālis (Renaissance Latin)
Descendants
- Asturian: foya, fueyu
- Catalan: foia, → fòvea, ⇒ bòfia
- English: fovea
- → French: fovéa
- Galician: foxo
- Italian: fovea
- Portuguese: fojo, fóvea
- → Proto-Brythonic: *fowyā
- Cornish: fow
- Middle Welsh: ffeu
- Welsh: ffau
- Spanish: hoya, hoyo, fóvea
References
- “fŏvĕa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 1. FOVEA 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)
- 2. FOVEA 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)
- “fovea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fŏvĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 684/2
- “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 450/1