meatus
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /miˈeɪ.təs/
Audio (General American): (file)
- (plural) (General American) IPA(key): /miˈeɪ.təs/, /miˈeɪˌtus/
- Rhymes: -eɪtəs
Noun
meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)
- (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
- Hyponyms: acoustic meatus, urinary meatus
- The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
- The illness. It came out of nowhere. His breathing all of a sudden started hurting the back of his throat. Then that overfull heat in various cranial meatus.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.
- Synonym: ear canal
Derived terms
Translations
tubular opening
See also
Further reading
- “meatus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “meatus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meˈaː.tus/, [meˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈa.tus/, [meˈäːt̪us]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of meō (“to go, to pass”).
Participle
meātus (feminine meāta, neuter meātum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | meātus | meāta | meātum | meātī | meātae | meāta | |
Genitive | meātī | meātae | meātī | meātōrum | meātārum | meātōrum | |
Dative | meātō | meātō | meātīs | ||||
Accusative | meātum | meātam | meātum | meātōs | meātās | meāta | |
Ablative | meātō | meātā | meātō | meātīs | |||
Vocative | meāte | meāta | meātum | meātī | meātae | meāta |
Related terms
Etymology 2
From meō (“to go, pass”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
meātus m (genitive meātūs); fourth declension
- (literal) a going, passing, motion, course
- (transferred sense) a way, path, passage
- Cornelius Tacitus, De origine et situ germanorum 1.6–8:
- ‘Danubius molli et clementer edito montis Abnobae iugo effusus plures populos adit, donec in Ponticum mare sex meatibus erumpat; septimum os paludibus hauritur.’
- “The Danube pours down from the gradual and gently rising slope of Mount Abnoba, and visits many nations, to force its way at last through six channels into the Pontus; a seventh mouth is lost in marshes.”
- “The Danube pours down from the gradual and gently rising slope of Mount Abnoba, and visits many nations, to force its way at last through six channels into the Pontus; a seventh mouth is lost in marshes.”
- ‘Danubius molli et clementer edito montis Abnobae iugo effusus plures populos adit, donec in Ponticum mare sex meatibus erumpat; septimum os paludibus hauritur.’
Inflection
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | meātus | meātūs |
Genitive | meātūs | meātuum |
Dative | meātuī | meātibus |
Accusative | meātum | meātūs |
Ablative | meātū | meātibus |
Vocative | meātus | meātūs |
Descendants
References
- “meatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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