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Definitions and meaning of fovea

fovea

Etymology

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊviə

Noun

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)

1. (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.

   Coordinate term: lacuna

2. (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

Derived terms

• foveate
• parafoveal
• postfoveal
• pseudofovea

Related terms

• foveal

See also

• fossa

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin fovea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoʋeɑ/, [ˈfo̞ʋe̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oʋeɑ
• Syllabification^(key): fo‧ve‧a

Noun

fovea

1. (anatomy) fovea

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fovea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ve.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔvea
• Hyphenation: fò‧ve‧a

Noun

fovea f (plural fovee)

1. fovea

   Synonym: fossetta

Derived terms

• foveale

Further reading

• fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related.

Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.u̯e.a/, [ˈfou̯eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ve.a/, [ˈfɔːveä]

Noun

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension

1. pit, hole in the ground
2. snare, pitfall

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• foveālis (Renaissance Latin)

Descendants

References

• “fŏvĕa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. FOVEA 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)
• 2. FOVEA 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)
• “fovea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fŏvĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 684/2.
• “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 450/1