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6-letter words (1 found)

DORSUM,

5-letter words (7 found)

DORMS,DOUMS,DRUMS,DUROS,MODUS,ROUMS,SUDOR,

4-letter words (29 found)

DOMS,DORM,DORS,DOUM,DOUR,DRUM,DUOS,DURO,MODS,MORS,MOUS,MUDS,MUSO,ORDS,OUDS,OURS,RODS,ROMS,ROUM,RUDS,RUMS,SMUR,SORD,SOUM,SOUR,SUMO,SURD,UDOS,URDS,

3-letter words (33 found)

DOM,DOR,DOS,DSO,DUM,DUO,MOD,MOR,MOS,MOU,MUD,MUS,ODS,OMS,ORD,ORS,OUD,OUR,OUS,ROD,ROM,RUD,RUM,SOD,SOM,SOU,SUD,SUM,SUR,UDO,UDS,UMS,URD,

2-letter words (12 found)

DO,MO,MU,OD,OM,OR,OS,OU,SO,UM,UR,US,

You can make 82 words from dorsum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dorsum

dorsum

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin dorsum (“the back”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɔː.səm/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɹ.səm/

Noun

dorsum (plural dorsa)

  1. (anatomy) The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
    Synonym: back
    1. The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.
    2. The top of the foot or the back of the hand.
  2. (geology) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.
  3. (astronomy) Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat.

Related terms

  • dorsal, dorsumal
  • dorsum sellae

Translations

References

  • “dorsum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “dorsum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • dromus, dumsor

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdor.sum/, [ˈd̪ɔrs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdor.sum/, [ˈd̪ɔrsum]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *dorsom, with no certain cognates in any other Indo-European languages. Has been linked to deorsum (“downwards”) < *dēvorsum, but their contemporaneous use suggests that one was not a phonetic development of the other. A potential connection with a Proto-Celtic *dros-man, giving Old Irish druimm (“back, ridge”), is unclear.

Alternative forms

  • dorsus
  • dossum (late, proscribed)

Noun

dorsum n (genitive dorsī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) the back (part of the body between the neck and buttocks)
  2. (transferred sense) the ridge, summit of a hill, a reef in the sea; any elevation
Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Vulgar Latin: dossum (see there for further descendants)
  • → Catalan: dors
  • → English: dorsum
  • → Esperanto: dorso
  • → Italian: dorso
  • → Portuguese: dorso
  • → Spanish: dorso

References

  • “dorsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dorsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dorsum 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)
  • dorsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

Adverb

dorsum (not comparable)

  2. Alternative form of deorsum (“down”)

References

  • “deorsum” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Source: wiktionary.org