# placenta
## English
### Etymology

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA: /pləˈsɛntə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛntə

### Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)
* (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
    Synonyms: afterbirth, (of an animal, UK, dialectal) clean, (of an animal, obsolete) glean
* (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
    Synonym: (obsolete) trophosperm

#### Coordinate terms

(animalian):
* amnion, amnio-
* chorion, chorio-

#### Derived terms

* placento- (and derivatives therefrom)
* placenta cake
* placenta praevia
* placental
* placentary
* placentiferous

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Tlapanec, pantacle

## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

### Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)
* (anatomy) placenta

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [pləˈsen.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [plaˈsen.ta]

### Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)
* (anatomy, botany) placenta

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplat͡sɛnta]

### Noun

placenta f (relational adjective placentální or placentární)
* placenta

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “placenta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “placenta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “placenta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
* Rhymes: -ɛntaː

### Noun

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)
* placenta
    Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

#### Derived terms

* placentadier

#### Related terms

* moederkoek

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: plasenta

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

placenta m (plural placentas)
* placenta

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

### Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)
* (anatomy, botany) placenta

## Interlingua
### Noun

placenta (plural placentas)
* placenta

#### Related terms

* placental

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, “flat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plaˈt͡ʃɛn.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɛnta
* Hyphenation: pla‧cèn‧ta

### Noun

placenta f (plural placente)
* (anatomy, botany) placenta

#### Related terms

* placenta previa
* placentare

### Anagrams

* placante

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακοῦντα (plakoûnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫ̪äˈkɛn̪t̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /plaˈt͡ʃen.ta/, [pläˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪ä]

### Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension
* a placenta cake; a round cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.
* a dessert cake of any type
* (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Quotations

* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: plãtsintã
* Romanian: plăcintă (see there for further descendants)
(Borrowed through New Latin:)
* → Asturian: placenta
* → Bulgarian: плацента (placenta)
* → Catalan: placenta
* → Czech: placenta
* → Dutch: placenta
* → English: placenta
* → French: placenta
* → Galician: placenta
* → German: Plazenta
* → Italian: placenta
* → Portuguese: placenta
* → Romanian: placentă
* → Russian: плацента (placenta)
* → Spanish: placenta
* → Vilamovian: płoc

### Noun

placentā
* ablative singular of placenta

### References

* ↑ C. Grandjouan, Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Suppl. 23) (1989) 57-67

### Further reading

* “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /plaˈsẽ.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /plaˈsẽ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /plaˈsẽ.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /plɐˈsẽ.tɐ/

### Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)
* (anatomy, botany) placenta

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plǎt͡seːnta/
* Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

### Noun

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)
* (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: pȍsteljica

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “placenta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplat͡senta]

### Noun

placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)
* placenta

### Further reading

* “placenta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /plaˈθenta/ [plaˈθẽn̪.t̪a]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /plaˈsenta/ [plaˈsẽn̪.t̪a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -enta
* Syllabification: pla‧cen‧ta

### Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)
* (anatomy, botany) placenta

#### Derived terms

* placenta previa
* placentario

### Further reading

* “placenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

placenta c
* (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: (more common) moderkaka
* (botany) placenta

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | placenta | placentas |
| singular | definite | placentan | placentans |
| plural | indefinite | placentor | placentors |
| plural | definite | placentorna | placentornas |

#### See also

* navelsträng (“umbilical cord”)

### References

* placenta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* placenta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* placenta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)