sesamoideus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σησᾰμοειδής (sēsămoeidḗs, “sesame-shaped”), with alteration of the ending to -eus or -ēus. Compare sēsamoīdēs.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sēsamoīdē̆us (feminine sēsamoīdē̆a, neuter sēsamoīdē̆um); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (anatomy) sesamoid
    Synonyms: sēsamoīdēs, sēsaminus
    os sēsamoīdē̆um
    a sesamoid bone
    • 1715, C. J. Trew, De chylosi Foetus in utero, quoted in On the Sesamoids of the Knee-Joint[1]:
      os sesamoideum insidens cavitate condyli exterioris in omnibus femoribus conspicuae
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative sēsamoīdē̆us sēsamoīdē̆a sēsamoīdē̆um sēsamoīdē̆ī sēsamoīdē̆ae sēsamoīdē̆a
genitive sēsamoīdē̆ī sēsamoīdē̆ae sēsamoīdē̆ī sēsamoīdē̆ōrum sēsamoīdē̆ārum sēsamoīdē̆ōrum
dative sēsamoīdē̆ō sēsamoīdē̆ae sēsamoīdē̆ō sēsamoīdē̆īs
accusative sēsamoīdē̆um sēsamoīdē̆am sēsamoīdē̆um sēsamoīdē̆ōs sēsamoīdē̆ās sēsamoīdē̆a
ablative sēsamoīdē̆ō sēsamoīdē̆ā sēsamoīdē̆ō sēsamoīdē̆īs
vocative sēsamoīdē̆e sēsamoīdē̆a sēsamoīdē̆um sēsamoīdē̆ī sēsamoīdē̆ae sēsamoīdē̆a

Descendants

  • → Italian: sesamoideo (learned)
  • → Spanish: sesamoideo (learned)

References

  1. ^ Karl Pearson, Adelaide G. Davin (1922) Drapers' Company Research Memoirs: Biometric Series XII: On the Sesamoids of the Knee-Joint (reprinted from Biometrika Vol. XIII, 1921), page 41
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