gingiva
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gingīva (“gums”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɪvə/, /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪvə/
- Rhymes: -aɪvə
Noun
gingiva (plural gingivae)
- (anatomy) The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone.
Derived terms
Translations
gum — see gum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (compare English chew, Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“eat”), Polish żuję (“I chew”), Persian جویدن (javidan), Pashto ژول (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɪŋˈɡiː.wa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒin̠ʲˈd͡ʒiː.va]
Noun
gingīva f (genitive gingīvae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gingīva | gingīvae |
| genitive | gingīvae | gingīvārum |
| dative | gingīvae | gingīvīs |
| accusative | gingīvam | gingīvās |
| ablative | gingīvā | gingīvīs |
| vocative | gingīva | gingīvae |
Descendants
- Aragonese: cheniva
- Aromanian: dzindzii, dzindzie
- Asturian: enxiva, xenxiva
- Catalan: geniva
- → English: gingiva
- Extremaduran: gengiva
- Franco-Provençal: gengiva
- French: gencive
- Friulian: zenzie
- Galician: enxiva
- Italian: gengiva
- Lombard: zenziva
- Norman: denchive
- Occitan: gengiva
- Piedmontese: zanziva
- Portuguese: gengiva
- Romanian: gingie
- Sardinian: ghinghía, sénsia, benzía
- Sicilian: gingili, cincili, zinzìa
- Spanish: encía
- Venetan: zinzìva, zenzìva, xenxìva
References
- “gingiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gingiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “gingiva”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.