glandula

See also: glándula, glàndula, and glândula

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, learned borrowing from New Latin glandula (“gland”, literally “a little acorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlanˈdu.la/
• Rhymes: -la
• Hyphenation: glan‧du‧la

Noun

glandula (uncommon)

1. synonym of kelenjar (“gland”)

Interlingua

Noun

glandula (plural glandulas)

1. gland

Italian

Noun

glandula f (plural glandule)

1. Alternative form of ghiandola

Latin

Etymology

From gland- (“acorn”) +‎ -ula (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.du.la/, [ˈɡɫ̪än̪d̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.du.la/, [ˈɡlän̪d̪ulä]

Noun

glandula f (genitive glandulae); first declension

1. a little acorn

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glandula	glandulae
Genitive	glandulae	glandulārum
Dative	glandulae	glandulīs
Accusative	glandulam	glandulās
Ablative	glandulā	glandulīs
Vocative	glandula	glandulae

Derived terms

• glandulae

Descendants

See also glāns.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: gljindurã
  • Romanian: ghindură
  • → Albanian: gjendër
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ghiandola
  • Neapolitan: grannula
  • Sicilian: ghiànnula
• North Italian:
  • Istriot: gangula
  • Piedmontese: giandr, giandra, giander
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: gnandolla
  • Old French: glandre
    • Middle French: glandre
      • French: glande
    • Norman: glandre
• Occitan-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: glanola
    • Catalan: glànola
  • Occitan: glàndola
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Leonese: landra (Salamanca)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: landoa, *landra
    • Galician: landra
    • Portuguese: landra
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: grandula, randula
• Borrowings:
• → Asturian: glándula
• → Catalan: glàndula
• → English: glandule
• → French: glandule
• → Galician: glándula
• → Italian: glandula
• → Portuguese: glândula
• → Romanian: glandulă

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “landre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 574
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “glandŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 146

Further reading

• “glandulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish glándula, from Latin glandula.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlandula/ [ˌɡlan̪.d̪ʊˈla]
• Rhymes: -andula
• Syllabification: glan‧du‧la

Noun

glándulá (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜓᜎ)

1. (biology) gland

Further reading

• “glandula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018