umerus

• humerus (rare in Classical texts)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃émsos (“shoulder”) by rhotacism and vowel anaptyxis -ms- > -mer-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos), Sanskrit अंस (áṃsa), and Gothic 𐌰𐌼𐍃 (ams).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu.me.rus/, [ˈʊmɛrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.me.rus/, [ˈuːmerus]

umerus m (genitive umerī); second declension

1. (anatomy) the humerus bone
2. shoulder (especially of a human)
3. back, ridge, such as of a mountain

Second-declension noun.

• “umerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “umerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• umerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hŭmĕrus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 510