pleura

pleura

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊə.ɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊɹ.ə/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura.

Noun

pleura (plural pleurae)

1. (anatomy) Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.

   Meronyms: cervical pleura, costal pleura, diaphragmatic pleura, mediastinal pleura, parietal pleura, visceral pleura

2. (zootomy) A lateral part in an animal body or structure.

Derived terms

• pleural
• pleuretic

Related terms

• pleurisy

Translations

serous membrane that covers the lungs and thorax

Bulgarian: плевра f (plevra) Catalan: pleura (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 胸膜 (zh) (xiōngmó) Czech: pohrudnice f Esperanto: pleŭro Finnish: keuhkopussi (fi) French: plèvre (fr) f Galician: teaz f Greek: υπεζωκώς (el) m (ypezokós) Italian: pleura (it) f Japanese: 胸膜 (きょうまく, kyōmaku) Kazakh: өкпеқап (ökpeqap) Maori: kiriuhi pūkahu Polish: opłucna (pl) f Portuguese: pleura f Russian: пле́вра (ru) f (plévra) Serbo-Croatian: porebrica (sh) f, pogrudnica f Spanish: pleura (es) Tagalog: bambambaga Vietnamese: màng phổi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pleura

1. plural of pleuron

References

• “pleura”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pleura”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• epural, perula

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

pleura

1. third-person singular past historic of pleurer

Anagrams

• pâleur

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”).

Noun

pleura f (plural pleure)

1. (anatomy) pleura

Related terms

Related terms

• pleura costale
• pleura diaframmatica
• pleurale
• pleura mediastinica
• pleura parietale
• pleura viscerale
• pleurico
• pleurite

Anagrams

• lupare

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλευρᾱ́ (pleurā́, “a rib, a side of something”).

Pronunciation

• pleura: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpleu̯.ra/, [ˈplɛːu̯rä]
• pleurā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpleu̯.ra/, [ˈplɛːu̯rä]

Noun

pleura f (genitive pleurae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) The pleura.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pleura	pleurae
Genitive	pleurae	pleurārum
Dative	pleurae	pleurīs
Accusative	pleuram	pleurās
Ablative	pleurā	pleurīs
Vocative	pleura	pleurae

Descendants

• → English: pleura
• → French: pleura
• → Italian: pleura
• → Portuguese: pleura
• → Spanish: pleura

Noun

pleurā f

1. ablative singular of pleura

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Portuguese

Noun

pleura f (plural pleuras)

1. (anatomy) pleura (serous membrane that covers the lungs and thorax)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleuɾa/ [ˈpleu̯.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -euɾa
• Syllabification: pleu‧ra

Noun

pleura f (plural pleuras)

1. (anatomy) pleura

Further reading

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