diafragma

Learned borrowing from Late Latin diaphragma, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́φρᾰγμᾰ (dĭắphrăgmă).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [di.əˈfɾaɡ.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.aˈfɾaɡ.ma]

diafragma m (plural diafragmes)

1. diaphragm

• diafragmar
• diafragmàtic

• “diafragma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

• diaphragma (dated, superseded)

From Middle Dutch diafragma, from Latin diaphragma, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́φρᾰγμᾰ (dĭắphrăgmă).

• IPA^(key): /dijaːˈfrɑxmaː/

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧frag‧ma

diafragma n (plural diafragma's, diminutive diafragmaatje n)

1. aperture (something which restricts the diameter of the light path through one plane in an optical system)
2. diaphragm: the muscle between thorax and abdomen needed for breething

   Synonym: middenrif

Borrowed from Russian диафрагма (diafragma).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑˌfrɑɡmɑ/, [ˈdiɑˌfrɑɡm]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑˌfrɑɡmɑ/, [ˈtiɑˌfrɑɡ̊mɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡm, -ɑɡmɑ
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧frag‧ma

diafragma

1. (anatomy) diaphragm
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 65:

     Kuin inmihisen ruumees, niin i elokkaan ruumees keskipaikaas ono mokoma poolosti, kumman erilaajain väliliha — kutsutaa hänt diafragmaks — jakkaa kahtee ossaa: rintapoolostii ja vatsapoolostii.

     Just like in a human body, in the animal body, in the middle there is a certain type of cavity, which a different kind of barrier - it's called a diaphragm - divides into two parts: the thoracic cavity and the abdominal cavity.

• verikammari

diafragma m (plural diafragmas)

1. (anatomy) diaphragm (sheet of muscle separating thorax from abdomen)
2. diaphragm (contraceptive device)
3. (mechanics) diaphragm (flexible membrane)

Borrowed from French diaphragmer.

a diafragma (third-person singular present diafragmează, past participle diafragmat) 1st conjugation

1. to diaphragm

• IPA^(key): /djaˈfɾaɡma/ [d̪jaˈfɾaɣ̞.ma]
• Rhymes: -aɡma
• Syllabification: dia‧frag‧ma

From Latin diaphragma (“partition, diaphragm”), from Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition-wall, barrier; later midriff, diaphragm”), from διά (diá, “through”) + φράγμα (phrágma, “fence, screen”), from φράσσω (phrássō, “to fence in, hedge around”).

diafragma m (plural diafragmas)

1. (anatomy) diaphragm (sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen)
2. diaphragm (contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup)
3. (photography) diaphragm (thin, opaque structure with a central aperture)
4. (acoustics) diaphragm (vibrating membrane in a speaker)
5. (botany) diaphragm (membrane that separates one cavity from another)
6. (mechanics) diaphragm (flexible membrane separating two chambers)

diafragma

1. inflection of diafragmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “diafragma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

diafragma c

1. (anatomy) diaphragm

   Synonym: mellangärde

2. a diaphragm (various partition walls)

• diafragma in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• diafragma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• diafragma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH