gigerium

English

Etymology

Latin gigeria (“(plural) the cooked entrails of poultry”).

Noun

gigerium (plural gigeria)

  1. (anatomy) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 gigerium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Noun

gigērium n (genitive gigēriī or gigērī); second declension

  1. (rare) singular of gigēria (“poultry entrails”)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gigērium gigēria
Genitive gigēriī
gigērī1		 gigēriōrum
Dative gigēriō gigēriīs
Accusative gigērium gigēria
Ablative gigēriō gigēriīs
Vocative gigērium gigēria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • Catalan: guier, grier
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