artere

• artire, arture, artiue

Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe; artery”).

artere (plural arteres)

1. (archaic, obsolete) sinew, ligament, tendon, artery
   • c. 1599-1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene iv, lines 81–83:

     My fate cries out
     And makes each petty artere in this body
     As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.

artēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of artō

artere f (plural arteres)

1. artery

artere oblique singular, f (oblique plural arteres, nominative singular artere, nominative plural arteres)

1. artery