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8-letter words (1 found)

PLACENTA,

7-letter words (7 found)

CAPELAN,CLAPNET,LACTEAN,PLACATE,PLANATE,PLANTAE,PLATANE,

6-letter words (22 found)

ACETAL,ANLACE,APNEAL,CANAPE,CANTAL,CANTLE,CAPLET,CAPTAN,CATENA,CATNAP,CATNEP,CENTAL,LANATE,LANCET,PALACE,PALATE,PLACET,PLANET,PLANTA,PLATAN,PLATEN,TALPAE,

5-letter words (47 found)

ACETA,ALANE,ALANT,ALATE,ANCLE,ANTAE,APACE,APNEA,CALPA,CANAL,CAPLE,CLAPT,CLEAN,CLEAT,CLEPT,ECLAT,ENACT,EPACT,LACET,LANCE,LATEN,LEANT,LEAPT,LEPTA,NATAL,PACTA,PAEAN,PALEA,PALET,PANCE,PANEL,PATEN,PECAN,PELTA,PENAL,PETAL,PLACE,PLANE,PLANT,PLATE,PLEAT,PLENA,TACAN,TALEA,TALPA,TAPEN,TEPAL,

4-letter words (71 found)

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3-letter words (51 found)

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2-letter words (16 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 216 words from placenta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of placenta

placenta

Etymology

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA(key): /pləˈsɛntə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə

Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

  1. (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
    Synonym: afterbirth
  2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

Coordinate terms

(animalian):

  • amnion, amnio-
  • chorion, chorio-

Derived terms

  • placento- (and derivatives therefrom)
  • placenta cake
  • placenta praevia
  • placental
  • placentary
  • placentiferous

Translations

Anagrams

  • Tlapanec, pantacle

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy) placenta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pləˈsen.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [plaˈsen.ta]

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplat͡sɛnta]

Noun

placenta f

  1. placenta

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
  • Rhymes: -ɛntaː

Noun

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

  1. placenta
    Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

Derived terms

  • placentadier

Related terms

  • moederkoek

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: plasenta

French

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta m (plural placentas)

  1. placenta

Further reading

  • “placenta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Interlingua

Noun

placenta (plural placentas)

  1. placenta

Related terms

  • placental

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, “flat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈt͡ʃɛn.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnta
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cèn‧ta

Noun

placenta f (plural placente)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Related terms

  • placenta previa
  • placentare

Anagrams

  • placante

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακούντα (plakoúnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫ̪äˈkɛn̪t̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /plaˈt͡ʃen.ta/, [pläˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪ä]

Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

  1. a placenta cake; a round phyllo cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.
  2. a dessert cake of any type
  3. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Quotations

Descendants

  • Aromanian: plãtsintã
  • Romanian: plăcintă (see there for further descendants)

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

Noun

placentā

  1. ablative singular of placenta

References

Further reading

  • “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plǎt͡seːnta/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

  1. (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: pȍsteljica

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplat͡senta]

Noun

placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)

  1. placenta

Further reading

  • “placenta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /plaˈθenta/ [plaˈθẽn̪.t̪a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /plaˈsenta/ [plaˈsẽn̪.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -enta
  • Syllabification: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “placenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

placenta c

  1. (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: (more common) moderkaka
  2. (botany) placenta

Declension

References

  • placenta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • placenta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • placenta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org