thymus

See also: Thymus

English

Etymology

From the Modern Latin thymus, from the Ancient Greek θύμος (thúmos, “warty excrescence, (also, as used by Galen) thymus gland”). Doublet of thymos and fume.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thīʹməs, IPA^(key): /ˈθaɪməs/
• Rhymes: -aɪməs

Noun

thymus (plural thymi)

1. (anatomy, immunology) A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 234:

     For a very long time the role of the thymus in the body was a complete mystery.

Derived terms

• thymectomy

Related terms

• enthymeme

Translations

ductless gland located behind the breastbone

• Azerbaijani: timus, çəngələbənzər vəzi
• Catalan: tim m, timus m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸腺 (zh) (xiōngxiàn)

• Czech: brzlík (cs) m
• Dutch: thymus (nl) m, zwezerik (nl) m
• Finnish: kateenkorva (fi)
• French: thymus (fr) m
• German: Thymus m, Bries (de) n
• Hungarian: csecsemőmirigy (hu)
• Irish: faireog thímis f, tímeas m
• Italian: timo (it) m
• Japanese: 胸腺 (きょうせん, kyōsen)
• Kazakh: айырша без (aiyrşa bez)
• Korean: 흉선 (hyungseon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rijênê tîmus m, tîmus f

• Malayalam: തൈമസ് (taimasŭ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brissel (no) m

• Polish: grasica (pl) f
• Portuguese: timo (pt) m
• Russian: ти́мус (ru) m (tímus), ви́лочковая железа́ (ru) f (víločkovaja železá)
• Spanish: timo (es) m
• Swedish: bräss (sv) c, thymus c, tymus (sv) c
• Turkish: timus
• Vietnamese: tuyến ức

See also

• sweetbreads

References

• “‖thymus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
    (ˈθaɪməs) Pl. thymi (ˈθaɪmaɪ) … a. Gr. θύμος (θῠ-)

Anagrams

• mythus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θύμος (thúmos, “warty excrescence”, “thymus gland”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.mus/, [ˈt̪ʰʏmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.mus/, [ˈt̪iːmus]

Noun

thymus m (genitive thymī); second declension

1. (medicine) A type of wart

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thymus	thymī
Genitive	thymī	thymōrum
Dative	thymō	thymīs
Accusative	thymum	thymōs
Ablative	thymō	thymīs
Vocative	thyme	thymī

Related terms

• thymium
• thymōsus
• thymum

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• tymus

Noun

thymus c

1. (anatomy, immunology) thymus

Declension

Declension of thymus

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	thymus	thymus
	definite	thymusen	thymusens
plural	indefinite	thymusar	thymusars
	definite	thymusarna	thymusarnas

Synonyms

• bräss