glottis

Late 16th century borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s, “mouth of the windpipe”), from γλῶττᾰ (glôttă, “tongue”) +‎ -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine noun suffix). Cognates include Latin gula.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒt.ɪs/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑ.tɪs/, [ˈɡlɑ.ɾɪs]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔt.ɪs/, [ˈɡlɔɾ.ɪs]
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪs

glottis (plural glottises or glottides)

1. (anatomy) The opening between the true vocal cords which is located in the larynx and affects voice modulation through expansion or contraction.

• glottalise, glottalize
• -glot
• proglottis

• “glottis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “glottis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Learned borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣlɔ.tɪs/
• Hyphenation: glot‧tis

glottis f (plural glottissen)

1. glottis

   Synonym: stemspleet

• glottaal
• glottisslag

• glosse
• polyglot

Learned borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlotːis/, [ˈɡlo̞t̪ːis̠]
• Rhymes: -otːis
• Syllabification^(key): glot‧tis
• Hyphenation^(key): glot‧tis

glottis

1. (anatomy) glottis

Borrowing from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s, “mouth of the windpipe; corncrake”), from γλῶττᾰ (glôttă, “tongue”) +‎ -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɫoːt.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡlɔt̪.t̪is]

glōttis f (genitive glōttidis); third declension

1. a little bird
2. (New Latin, anatomy) the glottis

Third-declension noun.

• hypoglōttion

• “glottis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• glottis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.