vesica

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/

vesica (plural vesicas or vesicae)

1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

• cavies

vesica (plural vesicas)

1. bladder

• vessīca

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈsiː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈs̬iː.ka]

vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder

   vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder

First-declension noun.

• vēsīca piscis
• vēsīcō
• vēsīcula

(See also vessīca.)

• Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
  • Occitan: vesiga (Ségala)
• → English: vesica
• → Romanian: vezică

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 341

• “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vesica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.