thorax

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).

• enPR: thôr'aks, IPA^(key): /ˈθɔɹæks/

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thorax (plural thoraces or thoraxes)

1. (anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.

   Hyponym: chest (synonymous in humans and some other animals)

   Holonyms: torso, trunk < body

   Meronym: chest

2. (entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.

   Holonym: body

   Meronyms: prothorax, mesothorax, metathorax

   Comeronyms: head, abdomen

Learned borrowing from Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtho(ː)rɑks/, [ˈt̪ho̞(ː)rɑ̝ks̠]
• Rhymes: -orɑks

thorax

1. thorax

• (part of insect's body): keskiruumis

• “thorax”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Latin thōrax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.ʁaks/

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thorax m (plural thorax)

1. thorax

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

From Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰoː.raks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɔː.raks]

thōrax m (genitive thōrācis); third declension

1. (anatomy) chest, thorax
2. breastplate, cuirass
3. doublet, stomacher
4. bust (statue)

Third-declension noun.

• (breastplate): lōrīca

• “thorax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “thorax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thorax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “thorax”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “thorax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “thorax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

thorax m (plural thoraxes)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tórax.

thorax c

1. (anatomy) thorax

• bröstkorg

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