femur.
thigh (human/animal); flat vertical band on triglyph; [~ bubulum => plant];
Meaning & usage
thigh
thighbone
the loins; capacity to produce children
the space between the grooves of a triglyph
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found. De Vaan and Lubotsky tentatively support Steinbauer's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“arc, bow”); this is semantically attractive, but the hypothetical change from *-nw- to *-(n)m- from Proto-Indo-European to Latin is strange.
first-person plural present active subjunctive of for
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