femur

Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

femur (plural femurs or femora)

1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

• femoral
• femur head

• fumer

Uncertain. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found. De Vaan and Lubotsky tentatively support Steinbauer's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“arc, bow”); this is semantically attractive, but the hypothetical change from *-nw- to *-(n)m- from Proto-Indo-European to Latin is strange.^[1][2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛmʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

1. thigh
2. thighbone
3. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
4. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

• femorālis

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeːmʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]

fēmur

1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

• “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• femur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “femur”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

Borrowed from French fémur.

femur n (plural femururi)

1. femur