feto
Portuguese
/ˈfɛ.tu/, /ˈfɛ.to/
noun
Definitions
- (embryology) fetus human embryo after the eighth week of gestation
- (biology) fetus unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fētus (offspring, fruitful, nursing, bearing young, young).
Origin
Latin
fētus
Gloss
offspring, fruitful, nursing, bearing young, young
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fetal English
- feticide English
- fetopathy English
- fetus English
- superfetation English
- *fetonem Latin
- *fētō Latin
- effetus Latin
- feto Latin
- fētus Latin
- fētōnem, *fētō Latin
- feto Italian
- fetologia Italian
- fetologo Italian
- fetoscopia Italian
- foetus Dutch, Flemish
- fœtus French
- feto Spanish, Castilian
- helecho Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁(y)- Proto-Indo-European
- fetus Catalan, Valencian
- fento Galician
- fieito Galician
- făt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *feeyto Old Portuguese
- fètus Occitan
- fetu Asturian
- felecho Old Spanish