humerus

Learned borrowing from Late Latin humerus, from umerus. Cognate with Spanish hombro (“shoulder”).

• (UK) enPR: hyo͞o'mərəs, IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
• Homophone: humorous

humerus (plural humeri)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the upper arm.
   • 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 76:

     Jojo was fine, however—well, she had a fractured humerus and needed to stay overnight, but it could’ve been a lot worse.

• armbone

• funny bone

• humerus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhʊ.mɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.me.rus]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊ.mɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.me.rus]

humerus m (genitive humerī); second declension

1. alternative form of umerus

Second-declension noun.

• "humerus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from French humérus.

humerus n (uncountable)

1. humerus