placentaとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

名詞

placenta (複数形 placentae または placentas)

1. (anatomy) A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
2. It is an endocrine gland which secret human chorionic gonadotropin hormone.The HCG if detected in woman's urine then the pregnancy is confirmed.
3. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

同意語

• afterbirth

派生語

• placental
• placentary

アナグラム

• Tlapanec, pantacle

Latin

語源

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

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫ̪aˈkɛn̪.t̪a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡ʃen.ta/, [plaˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪a]

名詞

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

語形変化

First-declension noun.

引用

派生した語

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

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

名詞

placentā

1. ablative singular of placenta

参照

• 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

Further reading

• Placenta cake on Wikipedia.

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