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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈvɪskəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-viscus.wav [Southern-England] Forms: viscera [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪskəs Etymology: From Latin vīscus (“any internal organ of the body”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|vīscus||any internal organ of the body}} Latin vīscus (“any internal organ of the body”) Head templates: {{en-noun|viscera}} viscus (plural viscera)
  1. (anatomy) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen. Translations (organ in the abdomen): víscera [feminine] (Catalan), víscera [feminine] (Galician), vicero (Ido), víscera [feminine] (Portuguese), víscera [feminine] (Spanish), inälva (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-viscus-en-noun-aMmHQT3h Categories (other): Anatomy Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'organ in the abdomen': 81 19
  2. (anatomy, specifically) The intestines. Tags: specifically Translations (the intestines): zsiger (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-viscus-en-noun-bZSElocu Categories (other): Anatomy, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 32 68 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'the intestines': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: entrails, innards, intestines, offal Derived forms: eviscerate, visceral Related terms: viscous

Noun [Latin]

IPA: [ˈwiːs.kʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈvis.kus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Of unclear origin; possibly Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to turn, rotate”). Compare typologically vulva < Proto-Indo-European *welH-, whence also volvō and many others. Etymology templates: {{der|la|ine-pro|*weys-||to turn, rotate}} Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to turn, rotate”), {{m+|ine-pro|*welH-}} Proto-Indo-European *welH- Head templates: {{la-noun|vīscus/vīscer&lt;3&gt;}} vīscus n (genitive vīsceris); third declension, {{tlb|la|chiefly plural}} (chiefly plural) Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|vīscus/vīscer&lt;3&gt;}} Forms: vīscus [canonical, neuter], vīsceris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], vīscus [nominative, singular], vīscera [nominative, plural], vīsceris [genitive, singular], vīscerum [genitive, plural], vīscerī [dative, singular], vīsceribus [dative, plural], vīscus [accusative, singular], vīscera [accusative, plural], vīscere [ablative, singular], vīsceribus [ablative, plural], vīscus [singular, vocative], vīscera [plural, vocative]
  1. organ (any internal organ of the body) Tags: declension-3, plural
    Sense id: en-viscus-la-noun-ttR3Cs2O Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 35 42 23 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 43 39 18
  2. (anatomy) entrails, viscera, bowels, internal organs Tags: declension-3, plural Synonyms: intestīnum, interāneum, exta, prōsicium, prōsecta, hīllae
    Sense id: en-viscus-la-noun-PzLGoHqF Categories (other): Anatomy, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 15 21 20 27 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 21 23 30 18 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 35 42 23 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 43 39 18 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  3. (figuratively) the innermost part of something, as the heart and vital organs are to the body Tags: declension-3, figuratively, plural
    Sense id: en-viscus-la-noun-23rYQsVn Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 35 42 23 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 43 39 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ēvīscerō, vīscerālis, vīscerātim, vīscerātiō [feminine], vīscereus Related terms: vīscum

Inflected forms

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          "text": "terra fabās tantum dūraque farra dabat.\nquae duo mixta simul sextīs quīcumque Kalendīs\nēderit, huic laedī vīscera posse negant.\nThe land yielded only beans and hard far. Whoever, on the Kalends of the sixth [months], eats these two [foods] mixed together, they say no harm will [come] to this [person’s] bowels.\n(The first day of June was the Kalendae fabariae or Bean-Kalends.)",
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        {
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      "code": "ca",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "víscera"
    },
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "víscera"
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          "viscus#Latin"
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        "singular"
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      "form": "vīscerum",
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      "form": "vīscerī",
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      "word": "vīscum"
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        "organ (any internal organ of the body)"
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          "organ",
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          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.180–182",
          "text": "terra fabās tantum dūraque farra dabat.\nquae duo mixta simul sextīs quīcumque Kalendīs\nēderit, huic laedī vīscera posse negant.\nThe land yielded only beans and hard far. Whoever, on the Kalends of the sixth [months], eats these two [foods] mixed together, they say no harm will [come] to this [person’s] bowels.\n(The first day of June was the Kalendae fabariae or Bean-Kalends.)",
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          "viscera",
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          "word": "intestīnum"
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          "word": "exta"
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          "word": "prōsicium"
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        "declension-3",
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        {
          "english": "But if that single individual is removed from such a great band of brigands, we shall perhaps seem to be relieved of our worry and fear for a certain short time, but the danger will remain and will be shut up deeply within the veins and in the bowels of the Republic.",
          "ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.31",
          "text": "Quodsī ex tantō latrōciniō iste ūnus tollētur, vidēbimur fortasse ad breve quoddam tempus cūrā et metū esse relevātī, perīculum autem residēbit et erit inclūsum penitus in vēnīs atque in vīsceribus reī pūblicae.",
          "translation": "But if that single individual is removed from such a great band of brigands, we shall perhaps seem to be relieved of our worry and fear for a certain short time, but the danger will remain and will be shut up deeply within the veins and in the bowels of the Republic.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(figuratively) the innermost part of something, as the heart and vital organs are to the body"
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈvis.kus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "viscus"
}

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