Translation
stomach (the digestive organ)
Word origin
From Greek stomachos, originally the gullet or the mouth of an organ, from stoma ('mouth'). Latin took it as stomachus and every European language followed.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- stomachos
- English cognates
- stomach, stoma
Examples
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My stomach is full after the big dinner.
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The doctor asked about my stomach.
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A hungry person thinks only about their stomach.
is the organ that digests, and only that. The soft front of you
that a belt goes round is the , so a punch lands
while indigestion sits . English blurs the two and Esperanto
does not, which is one of those small distinctions worth getting right
early: it is the difference between a doctor understanding you and a doctor
guessing.
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