gingiva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gingiva (“gums”).

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

Noun

gingiva (plural gingivae)

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

Derived terms

Translations
gum — see gum

Latin

Etymology

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”)).

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

Noun

gingīva f (genitive gingīvae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gingīva gingīvae
Genitive gingīvae gingīvārum
Dative gingīvae gingīvīs
Accusative gingīvam gingīvās
Ablative gingīvā gingīvīs
Vocative gingīva gingīvae

Descendants
  • Aragonese: cheniva
  • Aromanian: dzindzii, dzindzie
  • Asturian: enxiva, xenxiva
  • Catalan: geniva
  • → English: gingiva
  • Extremaduran: gengiva
  • Franco-Provençal: gengiva
  • French: gencive
  • Friulian: zenzie
  • Galician: enxiva
  • Italian: gengiva
  • Lombard: zenziva
  • Norman: denchive
  • Occitan: gengiva
  • Piedmontese: zanziva
  • Portuguese: gengiva
  • Romanian: gingie
  • Sardinian: ghinghía, sénsia, benzía
  • Sicilian: gingili, cincili, zinzìa
  • Spanish: encía
  • Venetian: zinzìva, zenzìva, xenxìva

References
  • “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
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