Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. · The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”). Doublet of foiba.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Borrowed-form mentionfoveala · ditch, pit
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "bor",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "fovea",
"t": "ditch, pit"
},
"expansion": "Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”)"
},
{
"name": "dbt",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "foiba"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of foiba"
}
],
"links": [
[
"fovea",
"fovea#Latin"
],
[
"foiba",
"foiba#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.",
"The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "50bbabdc86c42b75e23913f311b6d7fbf87597b4672f823cff0fec7f241a71a2",
"rawRecordSha256": "7c2009ed1d0001a835bdf7314ef8af35e20dbdb9702931b465ef535228f0dfba",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 229909
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}