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8-letter words (1 found)

AMYGDALA,

7-letter words (1 found)

AMYGDAL,

6-letter words (1 found)

MALADY,

5-letter words (5 found)

AGAMA,GAMAY,GAYAL,GLADY,MADLY,

4-letter words (21 found)

AGLY,AGMA,ALAY,ALGA,ALMA,AMLA,AMYL,DAAL,GALA,GAMA,GAMY,GLAD,GLAM,GYAL,LADY,LAMA,LYAM,MALA,MAYA,MYAL,YALD,

3-letter words (26 found)

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2-letter words (11 found)

AA,AD,AG,AL,AM,AY,DA,LA,MA,MY,YA,

You can make 66 words from amygdala according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of amygdala

amygdala

Etymology

Because of its shape, from Latin amygdala (“almond”), from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”). Doublet of almond and mandorla.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈmɪɡ.də.lə/

Noun

amygdala (plural amygdalas or amygdalae)

  1. (neuroanatomy) Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.

Holonyms

  • (region of the brain): brain, limbic system

Derived terms

Related terms

  • amygdalian
  • amygdalin
  • amygdaloid
  • mesoamygdala

Translations

Czech

Noun

amygdala f

  1. amygdala

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

  • amigdala (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈmyɡ.da.la/, [äˈmʏɡd̪äɫ̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈmiɡ.da.la/, [äˈmiɡd̪älä]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”). The sense "tonsil" is likely a calque of Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

Noun

amygdala f (genitive amygdalae); first declension

  1. almond tree
  2. almond
    Synonym: amygdalum
  3. (Medieval Latin) tonsil
Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants
  • Sicilian: mènnula
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *mandalā (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Noun

amygdala

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of amygdalum

References

  • “amygdala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • amygdala 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)
  • amygdala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

amygdala f (plural amygdalas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of amígdala

Source: wiktionary.org