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Fovea
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Fo′ve-a
,Noun.
pl.
Foveæ
(#)
. [L., a small pit.]
A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
Definition 2024
fovea
fovea
See also: fovéa
English
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.
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.we.a/
Noun
fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension
Declension
First declension.
| 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
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, 1883–1887)
- 2. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- fovea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fŏvĕa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 684/2.
- “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- “fovea” on page 450/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)