artery
/ˈɑːtəi/AHR-tur-ee
/ˈɑɹtɚi/AHR-tur-ee
Meaningan air pipe
Common meaning: a vessel carrying blood from the heart
- arterthe windpipe; an arteryLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 120 · scan
- ynoun ending: study, state or act
Journey through time
- Greekἀρτηρία‘the windpipe’
- Latinarteria
- Englishartery‘a vessel carrying blood from the heart’ · today
arter also in: arterial
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek ἀρτηρία ‘the windpipe; an artery’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry ARTERY, p. 35 · dictionary scan
Roots
- ἀρτηρία Greek “the windpipe; an artery”
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