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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪks/ Forms: fornices [plural]
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin fornix (“an arch, vault”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|fornix||an arch, vault}} Latin fornix (“an arch, vault”) Head templates: {{en-noun|fornices}} fornix (plural fornices)
  1. (anatomy) An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
    The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
    Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-fornix-en-noun-9ZzLZlOW Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  2. (anatomy) An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
    (neuroanatomy) A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
    Categories (topical): Anatomy, Neuroanatomy
    Sense id: en-fornix-en-noun-VzznbYHY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 50 25 Topics: anatomy, medicine, neuroanatomy, neurology, neuroscience, sciences
  3. (anatomy) An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
    The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.
    Categories (topical): Anatomy Translations (brain part): fòrnix [masculine] (Catalan), 穹窿 (alt: qiónglóng, (Taiwan) qiōnglóng) (Chinese Mandarin), fornikso (Esperanto), aivokaari (Finnish), sklepienie [neuter] (Polish), fórnix [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fornix-en-noun-IkqM0ymT Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'brain part': 0 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fornical, fornicate, forniceal, fornix vaginae Translations (archlike or vaulted structure or fold): fòrnix [masculine] (Catalan), 穹窿 (alt: qiónglóng, (Taiwan) qiōnglóng) (Chinese Mandarin), holvi (Finnish), pohjukka (Finnish), fórnix [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'archlike or vaulted structure or fold': 33 33 33

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈfor.niks/ [Classical], [ˈfɔrnɪks̠] [Classical], /ˈfor.niks/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈfɔrniks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Probably akin to Latin fornāx and furnus, fornus (“furnace”), and derived from the latter as *fornikos (“vaulted like a furnace”): typologically compare Ancient Greek κάμινος (káminos, “furnace”) beside καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), both possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, to curve”). Etymology templates: {{cog|la|fornāx}} Latin fornāx, {{m|la|furnus}} furnus, {{m|la|fornus|t=furnace}} fornus (“furnace”), {{m|la||*fornikos|t=vaulted like a furnace}} *fornikos (“vaulted like a furnace”), {{ncog|grc|κάμινος|t=furnace}} Ancient Greek κάμινος (káminos, “furnace”), {{m|grc|καμάρα|t=vaulted chamber}} καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), {{m+|ine-pro|*kh₂em-|t=to bend, to curve}} Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, to curve”) Head templates: {{la-noun|fornix<3>|g=m}} fornix m (genitive fornicis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|fornix<3>}} Forms: fornicis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], fornix [nominative, singular], fornicēs [nominative, plural], fornicis [genitive, singular], fornicum [genitive, plural], fornicī [dative, singular], fornicibus [dative, plural], fornicem [accusative, singular], fornicēs [accusative, plural], fornice [ablative, singular], fornicibus [ablative, plural], fornix [singular, vocative], fornicēs [plural, vocative]
  1. (literal) an arch, vault Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-fornix-la-noun-3FMek30e
  2. (poetic) the arch of heaven Tags: declension-3, masculine, poetic
    Sense id: en-fornix-la-noun-OMYGsB2D
  3. a brothel, bagnio, stew (situated in a cellar) Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-fornix-la-noun-RopXHVra Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 17 17 65 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 27 25 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cōnfornicō, fornicārius, fornicor, Fornix Fabius Related terms: fornicārius, fornicātim, fornicātiō, fornicātor, fornicātrīx, fornicātus

Inflected forms

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}

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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            "1": "it",
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Italian: fornice",
          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "→ Italian: fornice"
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      "text": "→ Portuguese: fórnice"
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            "bor": "1"
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        }
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        "a brothel, bagnio, stew (situated in a cellar)"
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          "brothel"
        ],
        [
          "bagnio",
          "bagnio"
        ],
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          "stew",
          "stew"
        ],
        [
          "cellar",
          "cellar"
        ]
      ],
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        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfor.niks/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɔrnɪks̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfor.niks/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɔrniks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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    "de:Rosemarie Lühr",
    "fr:Jacques André"
  ],
  "word": "fornix"
}
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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Requests for quotations in Latin"
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    {
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    },
    {
      "word": "fornicate"
    },
    {
      "word": "forniceal"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornix vaginae"
    }
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        "2": "la",
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        "4": "",
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    }
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "en:Anatomy"
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        "An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:",
        "The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera."
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        [
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          "anatomy"
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          "structure"
        ],
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          "fold"
        ],
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          "junction"
        ],
        [
          "conjunctiva",
          "conjunctiva"
        ],
        [
          "eyelid",
          "eyelid"
        ],
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          "overlie"
        ],
        [
          "sclera",
          "sclera"
        ]
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        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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        "en:Neuroanatomy"
      ],
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        "An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:",
        "A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus."
      ],
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        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
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          "archlike",
          "archlike"
        ],
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          "vaulted",
          "vaulted"
        ],
        [
          "structure",
          "structure"
        ],
        [
          "fold",
          "fold"
        ],
        [
          "neuroanatomy",
          "neuroanatomy"
        ],
        [
          "triangular",
          "triangular"
        ],
        [
          "white matter",
          "white matter"
        ],
        [
          "mammalian",
          "mammalian"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
        [
          "corpus callosum",
          "corpus callosum"
        ],
        [
          "hippocampus",
          "hippocampus"
        ],
        [
          "hypothalamus",
          "hypothalamus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:",
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "neuroanatomy",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:",
        "The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "archlike",
          "archlike"
        ],
        [
          "vaulted",
          "vaulted"
        ],
        [
          "structure",
          "structure"
        ],
        [
          "fold",
          "fold"
        ],
        [
          "vagina",
          "vagina"
        ],
        [
          "uterine",
          "uterine"
        ],
        [
          "cervix",
          "cervix"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:",
        "The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪks/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "archlike or vaulted structure or fold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fòrnix"
    },
    {
      "alt": "qiónglóng, (Taiwan) qiōnglóng",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "archlike or vaulted structure or fold",
      "word": "穹窿"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "archlike or vaulted structure or fold",
      "word": "holvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "archlike or vaulted structure or fold",
      "word": "pohjukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "archlike or vaulted structure or fold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fórnix"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "brain part",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fòrnix"
    },
    {
      "alt": "qiónglóng, (Taiwan) qiōnglóng",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "brain part",
      "word": "穹窿"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "brain part",
      "word": "fornikso"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "brain part",
      "word": "aivokaari"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "brain part",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sklepienie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "brain part",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fórnix"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "fornix"
  ],
  "word": "fornix"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Requests for quotations in Latin"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cōnfornicō"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicor"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fornix Fabius"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "fòrnix",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: fòrnix",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: fòrnix"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "fornix",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: fornix",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: fornix"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "fornice",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: fornice",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: fornice"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "fórnice",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: fórnice",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: fórnice"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "fornix",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: fornix",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: fornix"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "fórnix",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: fórnix",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: fórnix"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "ffyrnig",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Welsh: ffyrnig",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Welsh: ffyrnig"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "fornāx"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "furnus"
      },
      "expansion": "furnus",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "fornus",
        "t": "furnace"
      },
      "expansion": "fornus (“furnace”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "*fornikos",
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      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
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      "name": "ncog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "καμάρα",
        "t": "vaulted chamber"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*kh₂em-",
        "t": "to bend, to curve"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, to curve”)",
      "name": "m+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably akin to Latin fornāx and furnus, fornus (“furnace”), and derived from the latter as *fornikos (“vaulted like a furnace”): typologically compare Ancient Greek κάμινος (káminos, “furnace”) beside καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), both possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, to curve”).",
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    {
      "form": "fornicis",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornix",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicibus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornice",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicibus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornix",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fornicēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "fornix<3>",
        "g": "m"
      },
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      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fornix<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fornicārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicātim"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicātiō"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicātor"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicātrīx"
    },
    {
      "word": "fornicātus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "an arch, vault"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "arch",
          "arch"
        ],
        [
          "vault",
          "vault"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) an arch, vault"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin poetic terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the arch of heaven"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "arch",
          "arch"
        ],
        [
          "heaven",
          "heaven"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) the arch of heaven"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a brothel, bagnio, stew (situated in a cellar)"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "brothel",
          "brothel"
        ],
        [
          "bagnio",
          "bagnio"
        ],
        [
          "stew",
          "stew"
        ],
        [
          "cellar",
          "cellar"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfor.niks/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɔrnɪks̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfor.niks/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɔrniks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "de:Rosemarie Lühr",
    "fr:Jacques André"
  ],
  "word": "fornix"
}

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