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fetus

Pronunciation: [ˈfeː.tʊs]

“fetus” is a Latin word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. pregnant, full of young
  2. of one who has recently given birth, of one that has newly delivered; nursing
  3. fruitful, fertile, productive, teeming with, full of, big

noun

  1. a bearing, birth, bringing forth
  2. offspring, young, progeny
  3. fruit, product; bearing, produce
  4. growth, production
  5. a fetus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fētos, from earlier *θētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-to-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”) + *-tós, see also Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck, suckle”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem, “to suck mother's milk”), Lithuanian žįsti (“to suckle, nurse”), and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti, “to breastfeed, suckle”).

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