vomer

From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊmə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -oʊmə(ɹ)

vomer (plural vomers)

1. (anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.

• mover

Borrowed from Latin vōmer.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.mɛʁ/

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vomer m (plural vomers)

1. vomer, vomer bone

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

• morve

• vōmis

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwoː.mɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.mer]

vōmer m (genitive vōmeris); third declension

1. ploughshare

   vomere findere terras ― to cleave the earth by plow

2. (informal) penis

Third-declension noun.

• vōmeronāsālis

• “vomer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vomer in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “vomer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vomer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French vomer.

vomer n (plural vomere)

1. vomer, vomer bone