diaphragma
See also: Diaphragma
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: diaphragmas, diaphragmât
Verb
diaphragma
- third-person singular past historic of diaphragmer
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [di.aˈpʰraɡ.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [di.aˈfraɡ.ma]
Noun
diaphragma n (genitive diaphragmatis); third declension
- diaphragm (all senses)
- Stomachus iacet īnfrā diaphragma in mediō epigastriī.
- The stomach lies below the diaphragm in the middle of the epigastrium.
- septum, partition
- midriff
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | diaphragma | diaphragmata |
| genitive | diaphragmatis | diaphragmatum |
| dative | diaphragmatī | diaphragmatibus |
| accusative | diaphragma | diaphragmata |
| ablative | diaphragmate | diaphragmatibus |
| vocative | diaphragma | diaphragmata |
Descendants
- → Catalan: diafragma
- → Middle English: diafragma
- English: diaphragm
- → French: diaphragme
- → German: Diaphragma
- → Russian: диафрагма (diafragma)
- → Ukrainian: діафрагма (diafrahma), діяфрагма (dijafrahma)
References
- “diaphragma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diaphragma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.