viscera - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
  • 1.4 Noun
    * 1.4.1 Synonyms
    * 1.4.2 Derived terms
    * 1.4.3 Translations
  • 1.5 References
  • 1.6 Anagrams
• 2 Latin
  • 2.1 Pronunciation
  • 2.2 Noun
  • 2.3 References

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Borrowed from Latin viscera (“internal organs; bowels”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɪsəɹə/

viscera

1. plural of viscus

viscera pl (plural only)

1. Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach.
2. The intestines.

• entrails
• innards
• intestines
• offal
• visceral
• eviscerate
• megaviscera
• “viscera”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• varices
• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiːs.kɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviʃ.ʃe.ra]

vīscera

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vīscus

• “viscera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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