femur

See also: Femur, fémur, fèmur, and fêmur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

femur (plural femurs or femora)

1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Derived terms

• femoral
• femur head

Translations

thighbone — see thighbone

segment of insect’s leg

• Catalan: fèmur (ca) m
• Finnish: reisi (fi)
• German: Femur (de) n
• Hebrew: קוּלִית (he) f (qulít)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê ran (ku) m

• Russian: бедро́ (ru) n (bedró)
• Spanish: fémur (es) m

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} femuro
• French: ^{(please verify)} fémur (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} femore (it) m
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} šlaunikaulis ?
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} lårbein n
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} lårben (sv) n

Anagrams

• fumer

Latin

Femur (thigh)

Etymology 1

Uncertain. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found. De Vaan and Lubotsky tentatively support Steinbauer's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“arc, bow”); this is semantically attractive, but the hypothetical change from *-nw- to *-(n)m- from Proto-Indo-European to Latin is strange.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛmʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]

Noun

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	femur	femina femora
Genitive	feminis femoris	feminum femorum
Dative	feminī femorī	feminibus femoribus
Accusative	femur	femina femora
Ablative	femine femore	feminibus femoribus
Vocative	femur	femina femora

Derived terms

• femorālis

Descendants

• → Catalan: fèmur
• → English: femur
• → French: fémur
• → Galician: fémur
• → German: Femur
• → Italian: femore
• → Occitan: fèmur
• → Portuguese: fémur (Portugal), fêmur (Brazil)
• → Romanian: femur
• → Sicilian: fèmuri
• → Spanish: fémur

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeːmʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fémur.

Noun

femur n (plural femururi)

1. femur

Declension

Declension of femur

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) femur	femurul	(niște) femururi	femururile
genitive/dative	(unui) femur	femurului	(unor) femururi	femururilor
vocative	femurule		femururilor