placenta

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

• enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA^(key): /pləˈsɛntə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntə

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

1. (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

   Synonyms: afterbirth, (of an animal, UK, dialectal) clean, (of an animal, obsolete) glean

2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

   Synonym: (obsolete) trophosperm

(animalian):

• amnion, amnio-
• chorion, chorio-

• Tlapanec, pantacle

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy) placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pləˈsen.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [plaˈsen.ta]

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placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡sɛnta]

placenta f (relational adjective placentální or placentární)

1. placenta

• “placenta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “placenta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “placenta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

• IPA^(key): /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/

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• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɛntaː

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

1. placenta

   Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

• placentadier

• moederkoek

• → Indonesian: plasenta

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placenta m (plural placentas)

1. placenta

• “placenta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

placenta (plural placentas)

1. placenta

• placental

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, “flat”).

• IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡ʃɛn.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛnta
• Hyphenation: pla‧cèn‧ta

placenta f (plural placente)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

• placenta previa
• placentare

• placante

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακοῦντα (plakoûnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɫaˈkɛn.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [plaˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪a]

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

1. a placenta cake; a round cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.^[1]
2. a dessert cake of any type
3. (New Latin) ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

First-declension noun.

• Aromanian: plãtsintã
• Romanian: plăcintă (see there for further descendants)

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

placentā

1. ablative singular of placenta

• “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

• IPA^(key): /plǎt͡seːnta/
• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

1. (anatomy) placenta

   Synonym: pȍsteljica

• “placenta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡senta]

placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)

1. placenta

• “placenta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

• IPA^(key): /plaˈθenta/ [plaˈθẽn̪.t̪a] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /plaˈsenta/ [plaˈsẽn̪.t̪a] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: pla‧cen‧ta

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

• “placenta”, 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

placenta c

1. (anatomy) placenta

   Synonym: (more common) moderkaka

2. (botany) placenta

• navelsträng (“umbilical cord”)

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