Translation
belly, abdomen
Word origin
From Latin venter, the belly, straight through French ventre and Italian ventre. English ventral and ventricle come from the same root, and both are anatomy words rather than everyday ones.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- venter
- English cognates
- ventral, ventricle
Examples
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The baby is sleeping on its belly.
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I feel a pain in my belly.
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The dog lay with its belly to the sun.
is the outside of you: the belly you lie on and rub when it hurts. The organ inside is the , and keeping the two apart matters at the doctor's, where a pain in the and a pain in the are different complaints. Watch the spelling against (wind), which differs by a single letter and turns "belly ache" into something meteorological.
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