ventrum

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin venter (“belly”), with the ending possibly changed by backformation from ventral and/or by analogy to dorsum (“back”).

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Noun

ventrum (plural ventra or ventrums)

  1. (zootomy) abdomen, belly (especially of an animal)

Latin

Noun

ventrum

  1. misspelling of ventrem
    • 2009, Sally L. Kitch, The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States (overall work in English), State University of New York Press, page 161:
      Since partus sequitur ventrum determined racial identity in the U.S. for so long, it might seem logical that the "womb" also determined the citizenship of the child.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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