femur

See also: Femur, fémur, fèmur, and fêmur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

femur (plural femurs or femora)

  1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
  2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
  3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Derived terms

Translations
thighbone — see thighbone
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Anagrams

Latin
Femur (thigh)

Etymology 1

Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

  1. thigh
  2. thighbone
  3. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
  4. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative femur femina
femora
Genitive feminis
femoris		 feminum
femorum
Dative feminī
femorī		 feminibus
femoribus
Accusative femur femina
femora
Ablative femine
femore		 feminibus
femoribus
Vocative femur femina
femora
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Catalan: fèmur
  • → English: femur
  • → French: fémur
  • → Galician: fémur
  • → German: Femur
  • → Italian: femore
  • → Occitan: fèmur
  • → Portuguese: fémur (Portugal), fêmur (Brazil)
  • → Romanian: femur
  • → Sicilian: fèmuri
  • → Spanish: fémur

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

fēmur

  1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • femur 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)
  • femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fémur.

Noun

femur n (plural femururi)

  1. femur

Declension
Declension of femur
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) femur femurul (niște) femururi femururile
genitive/dative (unui) femur femurului (unor) femururi femururilor
vocative femurule femururilor
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