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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhaɪ.ləm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hilum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hila [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪləm Etymology: From Latin hīlum (“a trifle; a spot on a seed”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|hilum|hīlum|a trifle; a spot on a seed}} Latin hīlum (“a trifle; a spot on a seed”) Head templates: {{en-noun|hila}} hilum (plural hila)
  1. (botany) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. Categories (topical): Botany Translations ((botany) eye of a seed): 種臍 (Chinese Mandarin), 种脐 (zhǒngqí) (Chinese Mandarin), hilumo (Esperanto), siemenarpi (Finnish), hile [masculine] (French), Hilum [neuter] (German), Nabel [masculine] (German), ilo [masculine] (Italian), ombelico [masculine] (Italian), occhio [masculine] (Italian), hilo [masculine] (Portuguese), hilo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hilum-en-noun-16qGCGbG Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences Disambiguation of '(botany) eye of a seed': 68 24 8
  2. (botany) The nucleus of a starch grain. Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-hilum-en-noun-k0AUlvlK Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  3. (anatomy) A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ; a porta. Categories (topical): Anatomy Synonyms (fissure): porta Translations ((anatomy) porta of an organ): hil [masculine] (Catalan), hílum [masculine] (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (mén) (Chinese Mandarin), portti (Finnish), wnęka [feminine] (Polish), hil [neuter] (Romanian), воро́та (alt: о́ргана) [plural] (Russian), hilio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hilum-en-noun-8gQ6iOHp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 20 59 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'fissure': 5 9 87 Disambiguation of '(anatomy) porta of an organ': 5 10 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hilus Related terms: hilar

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈhiː.lum/ [Classical], [ˈhiːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ] [Classical], /ˈi.lum/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈiːlum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from a Semitic source, or a variant of filum (“thread”) if the original sense was “little thread, fiber”. Etymology templates: {{unk|la}} Unknown, {{der|la|sem}} Semitic, {{m|en|filum|t=thread}} filum (“thread”) Head templates: {{la-noun|hīlum<2>}} hīlum n (genitive hīlī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|hīlum<2>}} Forms: hīlum [canonical, neuter], hīlī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], hīlum [nominative, singular], hīla [nominative, plural], hīlī [genitive, singular], hīlōrum [genitive, plural], hīlō [dative, singular], hīlīs [dative, plural], hīlum [accusative, singular], hīla [accusative, plural], hīlō [ablative, singular], hīlīs [ablative, plural], hīlum [singular, vocative], hīla [plural, vocative]
  1. trifle Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-hilum-la-noun-1pVhw4Pl
  2. (in the negative) not a whit, not in the least Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-hilum-la-noun-YxPyNRZ6 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 38 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nihilum (english: nothing)

Inflected forms

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        "Classical"
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        "Classical"
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      "ipa": "/ˈi.lum/",
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      "ipa": "[ˈiːlum]",
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}
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          "text": "[The pancreas] is a hook-shaped gland, about 15 cm long, that lies transversely across the upper abdomen, with the head in the C-shaped curve of the duodenum[…], extending to the left as the body behind the stomach and ending as the tail lying against the hilum of the spleen.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Benoît Ghaye, “Imaging of Hila and Pulmonary Vessels”, in Emmanuel E. Coche, Benoît Ghaye, Johan De Mey, Philippe Duyck, editors, Comparative Interpretation of CT and Standard Radiography of the Chest, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, page 166",
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          "ref": "2010, W. Richard Webb, Charles B. Higgins, Thoracic Imaging: Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Radiology, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa., London: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 161",
          "text": "In the large majority of normal patients, the hila appear equal in size on frontal radiographs; comparison of the two hila is helpful in patients with a unilateral abnormality.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈhaɪ.ləm/"
    },
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      "sense": "fissure",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "word": "種臍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "zhǒngqí",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "word": "种脐"
    },
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    },
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      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "word": "siemenarpi"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      ],
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    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hilum"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Nabel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ombelico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "occhio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(botany) eye of a seed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hílum"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "word": "門"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mén",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "word": "门"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "word": "portti"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wnęka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hil"
    },
    {
      "alt": "о́ргана",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "воро́та"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(anatomy) porta of an organ",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "hilio"
    }
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}

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    "Latin neuter nouns",
    "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
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    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Semitic languages",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin terms with unknown etymologies"
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    {
      "english": "nothing",
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    }
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        }
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    },
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        }
      ],
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    },
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        }
      ],
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    },
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            "2": "ilo"
          },
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        }
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    },
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            "2": "hilo"
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            "2": "hilio"
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      "form": "hīlum",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "hīlō",
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "hīlīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hīlum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
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      "tags": [
        "Classical"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈhiːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]",
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        "Classical"
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      "ipa": "/ˈi.lum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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}
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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": voróta (órgana) vs. о́ргана",
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    "hilum"
  ],
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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "hilum",
  "trace": ""
}

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