ventriculus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventricle.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɛnˈtɹɪk.jəl.əs/, /vənˈtɹɪk.jəl.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs

ventriculus (plural ventriculi)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) A digestive cavity such as a gizzard or stomach.

• proventriculus
• ventricular

• ventriculite

• “ventriculus”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From venter (“the belly”) + -culus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛnˈtrɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [venˈtriː.ku.lus]

ventriculus m (genitive ventriculī); second declension

1. (literal) the belly
2. (transferred sense, anatomy)
   1. the stomach
   2. a ventricle of the heart
   3. a ventricle of the brain

Second-declension noun.

• prōventriculus
• ventriculātiō (noun)
• ventriculōsus (adjective)

• ventricola
• ventricultor

• “ventriculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ventriculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ventriculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.