glandula

See also: glándula, glàndula, and glândula

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, learned borrowing from New Latin glandula (gland, literally a little acorn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlanˈdu.la/
  • Rhymes: -la
  • Hyphenation: glan‧du‧la

Noun

glandula (uncommon)

  1. synonym of kelenjar (gland)

Interlingua

Noun

glandula (plural glandulas)

  1. gland

Italian

Noun

glandula f (plural glandule)

  1. alternative form of ghiandola

Latin

Etymology

From gland- (acorn) +‎ -ula (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

Noun

glandula f (genitive glandulae); first declension

  1. a little acorn

Inflection

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative glandula glandulae
genitive glandulae glandulārum
dative glandulae glandulīs
accusative glandulam glandulās
ablative glandulā glandulīs
vocative glandula glandulae

Derived terms

Descendants

See also glāns.

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: gljindurã
    • Romanian: ghindură
    • Albanian: gjendër
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ghiandola
    • Ligurian: gianda, gandüggia
    • Neapolitan: grannula
    • Sicilian: ghiànnula
  • North Italian:
    • Istriot: gangula
    • Piedmontese: giandr, giandra, giander
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: gnandolla
    • Old French: glandre
      • Middle French: glandre
      • Norman: glandre
  • Occitan-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: glanola[1]
      • Catalan: glànola
    • Occitan: glàndola
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Leonese: landra (Salamanca)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: landoa, *landra
  • Insular Romance:
  • Borrowings:
  • Asturian: glándula
  • Catalan: glàndula
  • English: glandule
  • French: glandule
  • Galician: glándula
  • Italian: glandula
  • Portuguese: glândula
  • Romanian: glandulă

References

  1. ^ “glanola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  2. ^ Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “grándula”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish glándula, from Latin glandula.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɡlandula/ [ˌɡlan̪.d̪ʊˈla]
  • Rhymes: -andula
  • Syllabification: glan‧du‧la

Noun

glándulá (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜓᜎ)

  1. (biology) gland

Further reading

  • glandula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018