gingiva

Borrowed from Latin gingiva (“gums”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɪvə/, /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪvə/
• Rhymes: -aɪvə

gingiva (plural gingivae)

1. (anatomy) The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone.

• gingival
• gingivitis

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (compare English chew, Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“eat”), Polish żuję (“I chew”), Persian جویدن (javidan), Pashto ژول (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡinˈɡiː.u̯a/, [ɡɪŋˈɡiːu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒinˈd͡ʒi.va/, [d͡ʒin̠ʲˈd͡ʒiːvä]

gingīva f (genitive gingīvae); first declension

1. (anatomy) gum (in which the teeth are set)

First-declension noun.

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