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Definitions and meaning of fetus

fetus

Alternative forms

• (UK) foetus
• (UK, rare) fœtus
• (obsolete, erroneous) phoetus, phœtus
• (obsolete, erroneous) faetus, fætus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːtəs/
• Rhymes: -iːtəs

Noun

fetus (plural fetuses or fetus or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstructed) fetii) (American spelling, also Canada, Australia)

1. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
   • 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2

     Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.

2. A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.

   The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.

3. (archaic) A neonate

Usage notes

• The form fetus is the primary spelling in the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth nations.
• The nominative/accusative plural of fētus in Latin is fētūs with lengthened second vowel. The hypercorrect plurals feti and fetii are thus comparable to the hypercorrect plural octopi of octopus (the Ancient Greek plural of octopus is octopodes).

Derived terms

• fetal
• fetus fetishist
• grandfetus
• multifetus

Related terms

• fetus in fetu
• fetus papyraceus

Translations

See also

• embryo

References

• Health Online

Anagrams

• EF-Tus, UTFSE, fuets

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fētus. First attested in c. 1900. Doublet of feda.

Noun

fetus m (invariable)

1. fetus

Related terms

• fetal

References

Further reading

• “fetus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fetus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fetus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Indonesian

Noun

fetus (first-person possessive fetusku, second-person possessive fetusmu, third-person possessive fetusnya)

1. foetus

Latin

Alternative forms

• foetus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fētos, from earlier *θētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(i)-to, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-, see also Sanskrit धयति (dhayati), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem), Lithuanian žįsti and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.tus/, [ˈfeːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.tus/, [ˈfɛːt̪us]

Adjective

fētus (feminine fēta, neuter fētum); first/second-declension adjective

1. pregnant, full of young
2. of one who has recently given birth, of one that has newly delivered; nursing
3. (figuratively) fruitful, fertile, productive, teeming with, full of, big
4. youthful, young

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• fēta

References

• “fetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Noun

fētus m (genitive fētūs); fourth declension

1. A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
2. Offspring, young, progeny.
3. Fruit, produce.
4. (figuratively) Growth, production.
5. (New Latin) A fetus.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: fet, fetu
  • Romanian: făt
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian:

    Marche: fetu ⇒ fetone, fetaccia

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fetu, etu; fedu ⇒ fedale, avedali
• Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • *fētiolum
  • *fētōnem
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: fetus
  • → English: fetus, foetus
  • → French: fœtus
  • → Galician: feto
  • → Italian: feto
  • → Occitan: fètus
  • → Portuguese: feto
  • → Spanish: feto
  • → Tunisian Arabic: فيتوس (fitus)
  • → Turkish: fetüs

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “fetus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 246

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin foetus. Doublet of făt, which was inherited.

Noun

fetus m (plural fetuși)

1. fetus

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin foetus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fěːtus/
• Hyphenation: fe‧tus

Noun

fétus m (Cyrillic spelling фе́тус)

1. fetus

Declension