hepar

From Latin hepar (“liver”). Cf. liver of antimony.

hepar (countable and uncountable, plural hepars)

1. (obsolete, chemistry) liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).
2. (obsolete, chemistry) Any substance resembling hepar in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide.

• “hepar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Harpe, Phrae, harpe, phare, raphe

Learned borrowing from Latin hepar (“liver”).

hepar m (definite hepari)

1. (anatomy, technical) liver

   Synonym: mëlçi

From Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhepar/ [ˈhe.par]
• Rhymes: -epar
• Syllabification: he‧par

hépar (plural hepar-hepar)

1. (medicine, chiefly technical) liver

   Synonyms: hati, lever

• “hepar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• ēpar

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈheː.par]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.par]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). Doublet of iecur. The Greek word's N-stem oblique base was lost and replaced with a T-stem; had it retained its ancestors' N-stem pattern, the oblique base would have most likely been *hēpan-, *hepan-, *hipan-, or *ipan- instead.

hēpar n (genitive hēpatis); third declension

1. liver (large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile)

   Synonym: iecur

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• hēpatārius
• hēpaticus
• hēpatītis
• hēpatīzon

• Italian: epa
• → English: hepar

• fīcātum

From Ancient Greek ἥπατος (hḗpatos).

hēpar m (genitive hēpatis); third declension

1. a kind of fish

Third-declension noun.

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