German

Femur

Noun

Femur m, n ‎(genitive Femurs or Femora, plural Femur or Femora)

1. femur

Synonyms

• Oberschenkel
• Oberschenkelknochen

English

Noun

femur ‎(plural femurs or femora)

1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
2. A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.

Derived terms

• femoral

Translations

References

• Webster import

Anagrams

• fumer

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛ.mʊr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfeː.mur]

Noun

femur n ‎(genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

1. thigh
2. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
3. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.

Inflection

Derived terms

• femorāle

Descendants

• English: femur
• French: fémur
• Italian: femore
• Portuguese: fémur (Portugal), fêmur (Brazil)
• Spanish: fémur

Etymology 2

See for

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeː.mʊr]

Verb

fēmur

1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

References

• femur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• femur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FEMUR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “femur”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.