glande

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑ̃d/

From Old French glandre, from Medical Latin glandula, from glāns, glāndem.

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (biology) Gland.
2. (medicine, non-technical) Swollen lymph node.
3. (medicine, non-technical) Tumor, growth.

• gland

Deverbal of glander.

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (slang) laze, lazing around, sloth

• “glande” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Hyphenation: glan‧de

glande f (plural glandes)

1. gland

• “glande” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

glande (plural glandes)

1. acorn

glande (plural glandes)

1. acorn

Borrowed from Latin glāns, glāndem. Compare the inherited doublet ghianda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

glande m (plural glandi)

1. glans

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡɫan.dɛ]

glande

1. ablative singular of glāns

Borrowed from Latin glāns, glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande. Cf. also landra.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃d͡ʒi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃dɨ/
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

glande f (plural glandes)

1. glans (vascular body on the apex of the penis)

Borrowed from Latin glāns, glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande or llande, now mostly regional/dialectal terms. Cf. also landre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlande/, [ˈɡlãn̪d̪e]
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

glande m (plural glandes)

1. (anatomy) glans penis