# fovea
## English
### Etymology

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”). Doublet of foiba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfəʊ.vi.ə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊviə

### Noun

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)
* (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
    Coordinate terms: fossa, fissure, sulcus, cleft, lacuna, vallecula
* (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

#### Derived terms

* foveate
* foveiform
* foveole
* parafovea
* parafoveal
* perifovea
* postfoveal
* pseudofovea
* subfovea

#### Related terms

* foveal

#### See also

* fossa

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin fovea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfoʋeɑ/, [ˈfo̞ʋe̞ɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -oʋeɑ
* Hyphenation: fo‧vea

### Noun

fovea
* (anatomy) fovea

#### Declension

Possessive forms of fovea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
foveani
foveani
accusative
nom.
foveani
foveani
gen.
foveani
genitive
foveani
foveoideni foveoitteni foveaini $^{rare}$
partitive
foveaani
foveoitani
inessive
foveassani
foveoissani
elative
foveastani
foveoistani
illative
foveaani
foveoihini
adessive
foveallani
foveoillani
ablative
fovealtani
foveoiltani
allative
fovealleni
foveoilleni
essive
foveanani
foveoinani
translative
foveakseni
foveoikseni
abessive
foveattani
foveoittani
instructive
comitative
—foveoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
foveasi
foveasi
accusative
nom.
foveasi
foveasi
gen.
foveasi
genitive
foveasi
foveoidesi foveoittesi foveaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
foveaasi
foveoitasi
inessive
foveassasi
foveoissasi
elative
foveastasi
foveoistasi
illative
foveaasi
foveoihisi
adessive
foveallasi
foveoillasi
ablative
fovealtasi
foveoiltasi
allative
foveallesi
foveoillesi
essive
foveanasi
foveoinasi
translative
foveaksesi
foveoiksesi
abessive
foveattasi
foveoittasi
instructive
comitative
—foveoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
foveamme
foveamme
accusative
nom.
foveamme
foveamme
gen.
foveamme
genitive
foveamme
foveoidemme foveoittemme foveaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
foveaamme
foveoitamme
inessive
foveassamme
foveoissamme
elative
foveastamme
foveoistamme
illative
foveaamme
foveoihimme
adessive
foveallamme
foveoillamme
ablative
fovealtamme
foveoiltamme
allative
foveallemme
foveoillemme
essive
foveanamme
foveoinamme
translative
foveaksemme
foveoiksemme
abessive
foveattamme
foveoittamme
instructive
comitative
—foveoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
foveanne
foveanne
accusative
nom.
foveanne
foveanne
gen.
foveanne
genitive
foveanne
foveoidenne foveoittenne foveainne $^{rare}$
partitive
foveaanne
foveoitanne
inessive
foveassanne
foveoissanne
elative
foveastanne
foveoistanne
illative
foveaanne
foveoihinne
adessive
foveallanne
foveoillanne
ablative
fovealtanne
foveoiltanne
allative
foveallenne
foveoillenne
essive
foveananne
foveoinanne
translative
foveaksenne
foveoiksenne
abessive
foveattanne
foveoittanne
instructive
comitative
—foveoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
foveansa
foveansa
accusative
nom.
foveansa
foveansa
gen.
foveansa
genitive
foveansa
foveoidensa foveoittensa foveainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
foveaansa
foveoitaan foveoitansa
inessive
foveassaan foveassansa
foveoissaan foveoissansa
elative
foveastaan foveastansa
foveoistaan foveoistansa
illative
foveaansa
foveoihinsa
adessive
foveallaan foveallansa
foveoillaan foveoillansa
ablative
fovealtaan fovealtansa
foveoiltaan foveoiltansa
allative
fovealleen foveallensa
foveoilleen foveoillensa
essive
foveanaan foveanansa
foveoinaan foveoinansa
translative
foveakseen foveaksensa
foveoikseen foveoiksensa
abessive
foveattaan foveattansa
foveoittaan foveoittansa
instructive
comitative
—foveoineen foveoinensa :

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin fovea. Doublet of foiba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ve.a/
* Rhymes: -ɔvea
* Hyphenation: fò‧ve‧a

### Noun

fovea f (plural fovee)
* fovea
    Synonym: fossetta

#### Derived terms

* foveale

### Further reading

* fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related.
Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfo.u̯e.a/, [ˈfou̯eä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfo.ve.a/, [ˈfɔːveä]

### Noun

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension
* pit, hole in the ground
* snare, pitfall

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* foveālis (Renaissance Latin)

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: fiju, hiju
* Asturian: foya, fueyu
* Catalan: foia, → fòvea, ⇒ bòfia
* English: fovea
* → French: fovéa
* Friulian: foibe
** → Italian: foiba
*** → English: foiba
* Galician: foxo
* Italian: Fobbia, Fobia, ⇒ Fobbiola, Fobiola (toponyms)
* → Italian: fovea
* Portuguese: fojo, fóvea
* → Proto-Brythonic: *fowyā
** Cornish: fow
** Middle Welsh: ffeu
*** Welsh: ffau
* Spanish: hoya, hoyo, fóvea

### References

* “fŏvĕa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "1. FOVEA", 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)
* "2. FOVEA", 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)
* “fovea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fŏvĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 684/2.
* “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
* Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 450/1
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237