Pharynx - Wiktionary

See also: Pharynx

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:pharynxWikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowing from New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phắrŭnx, “throat”).

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ɹɪŋks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛɹ.ɪŋks/, /ˈfæɹ.ɪŋks/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪŋks, -ɛəɹɪŋks

Noun

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pharynx (plural pharynges or pharynxes)

1. (anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus. Meronyms: nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, velopharynx, glossopharynx
2. (zootomy) The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.

Derived terms

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• actinopharynx
• buccopharynx
• craniopharyngioma
• cytopharynx
• epipharynx
• glossopharynx
• hypopharynx
• laryngopharynx
• mesopharynx
• nasopharynx
• neopharynx
• oropharynx
• palatopharynx
• pharyngal
• pharyngotomy
• retropharynx
• rhinopharynx
• velopharynx

Related terms

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• pharyngeal
• pharyngo-, pharyng-

Translations

[edit] part of the alimentary canal

Arabic: بُلْعُوم m (bulʕūm) Egyptian Arabic: بَلعوم m (balʕūm, balʕōm), لغلوغ m (laḡlūḡ) Hijazi Arabic: بَلْعوم m (balʕūm) Armenian: ըմպան (hy) (əmpan), կոկորդաբերան (hy) (kokordaberan) Asturian: farinxe (ast) f Bengali: গলবিল (bn) (golbil) Bulgarian: глътка (bg) f (glǎtka), фаринкс m (farinks) Catalan: faringe (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 咽頭 / 咽头 (zh) (yāntóu), 咽 (zh) (yān) Czech: hltan (cs) m Danish: svælg (da) n Dutch: farynx (nl) m Esperanto: faringo Estonian: neel, faarünks Faroese: svølg n, svølgrúm n Finnish: nielu (fi), farynks French: pharynx (fr) m Friulian: faringje m or f Galician: farinxe (gl) f German: Rachen (de) m; Pharynx (de) m Greek: φάρυγγας (el) m (fáryngas) Hebrew: לֹעַ (he) m (lóa), בֵּית הַבְּלִיעָה (he) m (bet habli'á) Hungarian: garat (hu) Icelandic: kok (is) n Ido: faringo (io) Interlingua: pharynge Irish: faraing f Italian: faringe (it) m Japanese: 咽頭 (ja) (intō) Korean: 인두(咽頭) (ko) (indu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: gewrî (ku) f, gerû (ku) f Latin: pharynx m Macedonian: го́лтник m (góltnik), ждре́ло n (ždrélo) Malay: farinks Maori: paeoro Norwegian: Bokmål: svelg n Nynorsk: svelg n Occitan: faringe (oc) f Persian: حلق (fa) (halq), نای‌گلو (nây-gelu) Polish: gardło (pl) n Portuguese: faringe (pt) f Romanian: faringe (ro) n Russian: фа́ринкс m (fárinks), зев (ru) m (zev), гло́тка (ru) f (glótka), горта́нь (ru) f (gortánʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ждријело n Roman: ždrijelo (sh) n Slovak: hltan (sk) m Slovene: žrêlo n Spanish: faringe (es) f Swedish: svalg (sv) n Tagalog: lalagukan Tamil: தொண்டைப்புரை (toṇṭaippurai) Thai: คอหอย (th) (kɔɔ-hɔ̌i) Turkish: yutak (tr) Vietnamese: yết hầu (vi) Volapük: farin

See also

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• larynx

References

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• “pharynx”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pharynx”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pharynx”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pharynx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pharynx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /fa.ʁɛ̃ks/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Noun

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pharynx m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) pharynx

Derived terms

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• nasopharynx
• oropharynx
• pharyngé
• pharyngien
• pharyngite
• pharyngolaryngite

Further reading

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• “pharynx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

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Latin Wikipedia has an article on:pharynxWikipedia la

Etymology

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Borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phắrŭnx, “throat, gullet”).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpʰa.ryŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfaː.riŋks]

Noun

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pharynx f (genitive pharyngis); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) the pharynx

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Inflection

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Third-declension noun.

singular	plural
nominative	pharynx	pharyngēs
genitive	pharyngis	pharyngum
dative	pharyngī	pharyngibus
accusative	pharyngem	pharyngēs
ablative	pharynge	pharyngibus
vocative	pharynx	pharyngēs

Derived terms

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• pharyngeus (adjective)

Related terms

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• pharyngeālis

Descendants

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• → English: pharynx