suspensorium

See also: Suspensorium

English

Etymology

New Latin

Noun

suspensorium (plural suspensoria)

  1. (anatomy) Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the mandibular suspensorium, a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suspensorium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Danish

Etymology

From Latin suspendere (“hang up, suspend”), from sub- + pendere (“hang”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /suspensoːrium/, [susb̥ænˈsoːˀɐ̯iɔm]
  • Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

suspensorium n (singular definite suspensoriet, plural indefinite suspensorier)

  1. jockstrap, suspensory bandage

Inflection
Declension of suspensorium
neuter
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative suspensorium suspensoriet suspensorier suspensorierne
genitive suspensoriums suspensoriets suspensoriers suspensoriernes

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

suspensorium n (definite singular suspensoriet, indefinite plural suspensorier, definite plural suspensoria or suspensoriene)

  1. jockstrap, suspensorial bandage

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

suspensorium n (definite singular suspensoriet, indefinite plural suspensorium, definite plural suspensoria)

  1. jockstrap, suspensorial bandage

References

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sus.pɛnˈsɔ.rjum/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrjum
  • Syllabification: sus‧pen‧so‧rium

Noun

suspensorium n

  1. jockstrap, suspensory

Further reading
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