"gastrocnemius" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɡæstɹəkˈniːmiəs/ Forms: gastrocnemii [plural]
Etymology: 1670s, borrowed from New Latin gastrocnēmius, from Ancient Greek γαστροκνημία (gastroknēmía, “calf of the leg”), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “paunch, belly”) + κνήμη (knḗmē, “leg”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|NL.|gastrocnēmius|nocap=1}} borrowed from New Latin gastrocnēmius, {{der|en|grc|γαστροκνημία|t=calf of the leg}} Ancient Greek γαστροκνημία (gastroknēmía, “calf of the leg”), {{affix|grc|γαστήρ|κνήμη|nocat=1|t1=paunch, belly|t2=leg}} γαστήρ (gastḗr, “paunch, belly”) + κνήμη (knḗmē, “leg”) Head templates: {{en-noun|gastrocnemii}} gastrocnemius (plural gastrocnemii)
  1. The muscle at the back of the calf, whose insertion is the Achilles tendon at the heel. Categories (topical): Muscles Derived forms: gastroc (english: abbreviation hereof), gastrocnemic, gastrocnemial Related terms: gastrocnemious Translations (muscle at the back of the calf): baldırın ikibaşlı əzələsi (Azerbaijani), gastroknemio (Basque), лыткавая цягліца (lytkavaja cjahlica) (Belarusian), gastrocnemi [masculine] (Catalan), 腓腸肌 /腓肠肌 (féichángjī) (Chinese Mandarin), ура хырӑмӗ (ura h̬yrămĕ) (Chuvash), gastrocnemius (Dutch), oppervlakkige kuitspier (Dutch), kaksoiskantalihas (Finnish), gastrocnémien [masculine] (French), Zwillingswadenmuskel [masculine] (German), γαστροκνήμιος (gastroknímios) (Greek), gastrocnemio [masculine] (Italian), 腓腹筋 (hifukukin) (alt: ひふくきん) (Japanese), gastrocnemius (Latin), dvilypis raumuo (Lithuanian), miȩsień brzuchaty łydki [masculine] (Polish), gastrocnêmio (Portuguese), gastrocnémio (Portuguese), икроно́жная мы́шца (ikronóžnaja mýšca) [feminine] (Russian), dvoglava mečna mišica (Slovene), gastrocnemio [masculine] (Spanish), gastrocnemius (Swedish), литко́вий м'яз (lytkóvyj mʺjaz) (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "muscle at the back of the calf",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.