thalamus

From Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “an inner chamber, a bedroom, a bed”).

thalamus (plural thalami or thalamuses)

1. (neuroanatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.
2. (botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
3. A thallus.
4. An inner room or nuptial chamber.

• thalamus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “thalamus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• thalamus at OneLook Dictionary Search

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thalamus m

1. thalamus

From New Latin, from Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos).

thalamus m (plural thalamus)

1. (anatomy) thalamus

• thalamique

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner room”), especially from Homer.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰa.la.mus/, [ˈt̪ʰäɫ̪ämʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.la.mus/, [ˈt̪äːlämus]

thalamus m (genitive thalamī); second declension

1. inner room, apartment of a house
2. bedroom, chamber
3. marriage bed
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.689-690:

     crēdit amāns thalamōsque parat, dēdūcitur illūc Ānnā tegēns voltus, ut nova nūpta, suōs.

     The lover believes her, and prepares a bedchamber. Anna, covering her face as a new bride, is escorted to it. (trans. Anne and Peter Wiseman, 2011)

4. (by extension, figuratively) marriage

Second-declension noun.

• “thalamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “thalamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thalamus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• thalamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “thalamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “thalamus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray