vesica

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas or vesicae)

  1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Interlingua

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas)

  1. bladder

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from an onomatopoeic root related to vissiō.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder
    vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vēsīca vēsīcae
genitive vēsīcae vēsīcārum
dative vēsīcae vēsīcīs
accusative vēsīcam vēsīcās
ablative vēsīcā vēsīcīs
vocative vēsīca vēsīcae

Derived terms

Descendants

(See also vessīca.)

  • Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
  • → English: vesica
  • → Romanian: vezică

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vēsīca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 669

Further reading

  • “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “vesica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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