viscus

From New Latin, from Latin viscus (“any internal organ of the body”), perhaps akin to English viscid.

• Homophone: viscous
• Rhymes: -ɪskəs

viscus (plural viscera)

1. (anatomy) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
2. Specifically, the intestines.

• entrails
• innards
• intestines
• offal

• eviscerate
• visceral

• viscus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• viscous

• viscus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• viscus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• viscus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Of unclear origin;[1] possibly Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to turn, rotate”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwis.kus/, [ˈwɪs.kʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvis.kus/

viscus n (genitive visceris); third declension

1. Any internal organ of the body.
2. (anatomy) entrails, viscera

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• viscerālis

• viscum

• → English: viscera
• → French: viscères
• Portuguese: víscera

• viscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 978-1-4931-9108-6