fovea

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”). Doublet of foiba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊviə

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)

1. (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.

   Coordinate terms: fossa, fissure, sulcus, cleft, lacuna, vallecula

2. (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

• foveal

• fossa

From Latin fovea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoʋeɑ/, [ˈfo̞ʋe̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oʋeɑ
• Syllabification^(key): fo‧ve‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): fo‧vea

fovea

1. (anatomy) fovea

From Latin fovea. Doublet of foiba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ve.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔvea
• Hyphenation: fò‧ve‧a

fovea f (plural fovee)

1. fovea

   Synonym: fossetta

• foveale

• fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related.^[1]

Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.we.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ve.a]

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension

1. pit, hole in the ground
2. snare, pitfall

First-declension noun.

• foveālis (Renaissance Latin)

• “fŏvĕa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "1. FOVEA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• "2. FOVEA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fovea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fŏvĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 684/2.
• “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 450/1