placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

• enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA^(key): /pləˈsɛntə/
• Rhymes: -ɛntə

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

1. (anatomy) A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
2. It is an endocrine gland which secret human chorionic gonadotropin hormone.The HCG if detected in woman's urine then the pregnancy is confirmed.
3. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

• afterbirth

• placental
• placentary

• Tlapanec, pantacle

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy) placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pləˈsen.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /plaˈsen.ta/

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

placenta f

1. placenta

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

• IPA^(key): /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/

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• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɛntaː

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

1. placenta

   Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

• placentadier

• moederkoek

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

placenta (plural placentas)

1. placenta

• placental

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placente)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

• placenta previa
• placentare

• placante

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫaˈkɛn.ta]

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

1. a flat cake
2. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

First declension.

• Aromanian: plãtsintã
• Romanian: plăcintă (see there for further descendants)

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

placentā

1. ablative singular of placenta

• placenta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• placenta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• placenta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

• IPA^(key): /pla.ˈsẽ.tɐ/

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

• IPA^(key): /plǎtseːnta/
• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

1. (anatomy) placenta

• (placenta): pȍsteljica

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta