anus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1658, borrowed from Middle French anus or its etymon Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). See also anal, annular, annelid.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.nəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪnəs
Noun
[edit]- (anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.
- (informal, derogatory) An impolite, unpopular, or unintelligent person.
Synonyms
[edit]- See Thesaurus:anus
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anus m (invariable)
Related terms
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anus m (plural anussen or ani, diminutive anusje n)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anus
Declension
[edit]Inflection of anus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | anus | anukset | |
genitive | anuksen | anusten anuksien | |
partitive | anusta | anuksia | |
illative | anukseen | anuksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | anus | anukset | |
accusative | nom. | anus | anukset |
gen. | anuksen | ||
genitive | anuksen | anusten anuksien | |
partitive | anusta | anuksia | |
inessive | anuksessa | anuksissa | |
elative | anuksesta | anuksista | |
illative | anukseen | anuksiin | |
adessive | anuksella | anuksilla | |
ablative | anukselta | anuksilta | |
allative | anukselle | anuksille | |
essive | anuksena | anuksina | |
translative | anukseksi | anuksiksi | |
abessive | anuksetta | anuksitta | |
instructive | — | anuksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anus”, 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 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring; anus”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anus m (plural anus)
Synonyms
[edit]- (vulgar) trou du cul, trou de balle
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: anüs
Further reading
[edit]- “anus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Italic *ānos (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). Possibly cognate with Old Irish áinne (from Proto-Celtic *ānniyos (“ring”)), Old Armenian անուր (anur, “ring, necklace”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaː.nus/, [ˈäːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.nus/, [ˈäːnus]
Noun
[edit]ānus m (genitive ānī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | ānus | ānī |
genitive | ānī | ānōrum |
dative | ānō | ānīs |
accusative | ānum | ānōs |
ablative | ānō | ānīs |
vocative | āne | ānī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Italic *anus (“old woman”), from *h₂en-H-o- (“old woman”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀννίς (annís, “grandmother”), Old Armenian հան (han, “grandmother”), Lithuanian anyta (“mother-in-law”), Old High German ana (“grandmother”), ano (“grandfather”), Old Prussian ane (“grandmother”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.nus/, [ˈänʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.nus/, [ˈäːnus]
Noun
[edit]anus f (genitive anūs); fourth declension
- old woman, crone, old maid, matron
- 11th to 13th century, In taberna quando sumus, from Carmina Burana:
- … bibit soror, bibit frater,
bibit anus, bibit mater, …- … the sister drinks, the brother drinks,
the old lady drinks, the mother drinks, …
- … the sister drinks, the brother drinks,
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | anus | anūs |
genitive | anūs | anuum |
dative | anuī | anibus |
accusative | anum | anūs |
ablative | anū | anibus |
vocative | anus | anūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- anas (#2)
Adjective
[edit]anus f
Usage notes
[edit]Only used with feminine nouns: the masculine counterpart is senex. Has the sense of an adjective, but declined like the noun. The use with inanimate feminine nouns is attested mostly in poetry in the nominative singular. See Citations:anus.
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.nuːs/, [ˈänuːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.nus/, [ˈäːnus]
Noun
[edit]anūs
- inflection of anus:
References
[edit]- (anus): “anus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (ring): “anus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (crone): “anus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “anus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- anus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- anus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ānus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 45
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]·anus
- first-person singular future/present subjunctive conjunct of aingid
- first-person singular preterite conjunct of anaid
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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·anus (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | ·n-anus |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]anus n (plural anusuri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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+ indefinite article | + definite article | + indefinite article | + definite article | ||
nominative/accusative | (un) anus | anusul | (niște) anusuri | anusurile | |
genitive/dative | (unui) anus | anusului | (unor) anusuri | anusurilor | |
vocative | anusule | anusurilor |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- anus in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”)
Noun
[edit]anus n
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | anus | anus |
definite | anuset | anusets | |
plural | indefinite | anus | anus |
definite | anusen | anusens |
Synonyms
[edit]Synonyms (vulgar or slang)
[edit]See also
[edit]- anal
- ringmuskel (“sphincter”)
References
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- English terms derived from Middle French
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- Rhymes:English/eɪnəs
- Rhymes:English/eɪnəs/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Anatomy
- English informal terms
- English derogatory terms
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- ca:Anatomy
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- nl:Body parts
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- Finnish learned borrowings from Latin
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑnus
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- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
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- Rhymes:French/ys
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- fr:Anatomy
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- Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin terms with quotations
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- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish non-lemma forms
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- ro:Anatomy
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