placenta

placenta

See also: placentă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

Pronunciation

• enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA^(key): /pləˈsɛntə/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə

Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

1. (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

Synonyms

• afterbirth

Coordinate terms

(animalian):

• amnion, amnio-
• chorion, chorio-

Derived terms

• placento- (and derivatives therefrom)
• placental
• placentary

Translations

anatomy: placenta

Albanian: placentë f Arabic: مَشِيمَة‎ f (mašīma), خَلَاص‎ m (ḵalāṣ), سُخْد‎ m (suḵd) Armenian: ընկերք (hy) (ənkerkʿ) Asturian: placenta f Azerbaijani: plasenta, ətənə, cift Belarusian: плацэ́нта f (placénta) Bengali: অমরা (ômôra) Bikol Central: inulnan (bcl) Bulgarian: плаце́нта f (placénta) Burmese: အချင်း (my) (a.hkyang:) Catalan: placenta (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 胎盤／胎盘 (zh) (tāipán) Czech: placenta (cs) f Danish: moderkage (da) c Dupaningan Agta: enyanan Dutch: moederkoek (nl) m, placenta (nl) f Estonian: platsenta Faroese: eftirburður m, fitilókur m, fylgi n, eftirferð f, móðurkøka f Finnish: istukka (fi) French: placenta (fr) m Galician: placenta (gl) f Georgian: პლაცენტა (ṗlacenṭa) German: Plazenta (de) f, Mutterkuchen (de) m Greek: πλακούντας (el) m (plakoúntas) Ancient: χόριον n (khórion) Hebrew: שִׁלְיָה‎ (he) f Hindi: बीजांडासन m (bījāṇḍāsan), अपरा (hi) f (aprā), खेड़ी (hi) f (kheṛī), गर्भनाल (hi) f (garbhanāl), पुरइन (hi) (purain), आंवल (āmval) Hungarian: méhlepény (hu) Icelandic: fylgja (is) f, legkaka f Irish: slánú m Italian: placenta (it) f Japanese: 胞衣 (ja) (えな, ena), 後産 (ja) (あとざん, atozan), 胎盤 (ja) (たいばん, taiban) Kazakh: жолдас (joldas), ұрықжолдас (ūryqjoldas) Khmer: សុក (km) (sok) Korean: 태반(胎盤) (ko) (taeban) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: hevalbiçûk (ku) Kyrgyz: тон (ky) (ton), чөп (ky) (çöp) Lao: ແຫ່ (hǣ), ສະຫະຊາດ (sa ha sāt) Latvian: placenta f Lithuanian: placenta f Macedonian: плацента f (placenta) Malay: uri, plasenta Maori: rehuwhāereere, ewe Navajo: awééʼ biyaałáí Norwegian: Bokmål: morkake m or f Nynorsk: morkake f Pashto: اباڼه‎ f (abā́ṇa), انول‎ m (anól) Persian: جفت‎ (fa) (joft), مشیمه‎ (fa) (mašime) Polish: łożysko (pl) n Portuguese: placenta (pt) f Romanian: placentă (ro) f Russian: плаце́нта (ru) f (placénta), после́д (ru) m (posléd) Sanskrit: अमरा (sa) f (amarā) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏стељица f, пла̀це̄нта f Roman: pȍsteljica (sh) f, plàcēnta (sh) f Slovak: placenta (sk) f Slovene: posteljica (sl) f Spanish: placenta (es) f Swedish: moderkaka (sv) c, placenta (sv) Tagalog: inunan Tajik: ҳамроҳ (tg) (hamroh) Tamil: பனிக்குடம் (ta) (paṉikkuṭam) Telugu: జరాయువు (te) (jarāyuvu), మాయ (te) (māya) Thai: รก (th) (rók) Turkish: plasenta (tr), etene (tr) Ukrainian: плаце́нта f (placénta) Uyghur: ئەش‎ (esh) Uzbek: yoʻldosh (uz) Vietnamese: nhau (vi), thực giá noãn, nhau thai Waray-Waray: inulnan

botany

Catalan: placenta (ca) f Galician: placenta (gl) f Romanian: placentă (ro) f Russian: семяно́сец (ru) m (semjanósec) Spanish: placenta (es) f

Anagrams

• Tlapanec, pantacle

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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy) placenta

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pləˈsen.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /plaˈsen.ta/

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Noun

placenta f

1. placenta

Declension of placenta

	singular	plural
nominative	placenta	placenty
genitive	placenty	placent
dative	placentě	placentám
accusative	placentu	placenty
vocative	placento	placenty
locative	placentě	placentách
instrumental	placentou	placentami

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɛntaː

Noun

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

1. placenta

   Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

Derived terms

• placentadier

Related terms

• moederkoek

Descendants

• → Indonesian: plasenta

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

placenta m (plural placentas)

1. placenta

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Interlingua

Noun

placenta (plural placentas)

1. placenta

Related terms

• placental

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placente)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Related terms

• placenta previa
• placentare

Anagrams

• placante

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακούντα (plakoúnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫ̪äˈkɛn̪t̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡ʃen.ta/, [pläˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪ä]

Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

1. a round phyllo cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.[1]
2. a cake of any type
3. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	placenta	placentae
Genitive	placentae	placentārum
Dative	placentae	placentīs
Accusative	placentam	placentās
Ablative	placentā	placentīs
Vocative	placenta	placentae

Descendants

• Aromanian: plãtsintã
• Romanian: plăcintă (see there for further descendants)

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

• → Asturian: placenta
• → Bulgarian: плацента (placenta)
• → Catalan: placenta
• → Czech: placenta
• → Dutch: placenta
• → English: placenta
• → French: placenta
• → Galician: placenta
• → German: Plazenta
• → Italian: placenta
• → Portuguese: placenta
• → Romanian: placentă
• → Russian: плацента (placenta)
• → Spanish: placenta
• → Vilamovian: płoc

Noun

placentā

1. ablative singular of placenta

References

1. C. Grandjouan, Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Suppl. 23) (1989) 57-67

Further reading

• “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /plaˈsẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /plaˈsẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /plaˈsẽ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /plɐˈsẽ.tɐ/

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plǎt͡seːnta/
• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

1. (anatomy) placenta

Declension

Declension of placenta

	singular	plural
nominative	plàcēnta	placente
genitive	placente	plàcenātā/plàcēntī
dative	placenti	placentama
accusative	placentu	placente
vocative	placento	placente
locative	placenti	placentama
instrumental	placentom	placentama

Synonyms

• (placenta): pȍsteljica

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡senta]

Noun

placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)

1. placenta

Further reading

• placenta in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /plaˈθenta/ [plaˈθẽn̪.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /plaˈsenta/ [plaˈsẽn̪.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Derived terms

• placenta previa
• placentario

Further reading

• “placenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014