fetus

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• /ˈfiːtəs/
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A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

126 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: cʼenaay — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Albanian: fetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Albanian: embrion — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Arabic: جَنِين (janīn) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Armenian: պտուղ (ptuġ) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Asturian: fetu — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Azerbaijani: döl — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Azerbaijani: rüşeym — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Azerbaijani: maya — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Basque: umeki — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Basque: fetu — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Belarusian: плод (plod) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Belarusian: заро́дак (zaródak) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Belarusian: эмбрыён (embryjón) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Bengali: ভ্রূণ (bhrun) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Bengali: ফিটাস (phiṭaś) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Bulgarian: заро́диш (zaródiš) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Bulgarian: ембрио́н (embrión) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Bulgarian: фе́тус (fétus) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Bulgarian: плод (plod) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Burmese: သန္ဓေသား (sandhesa:) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Burmese: ဇီး (ji:) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Catalan: fetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 胎 (toi1) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Chinese Cantonese: 胎兒 /胎儿 (toi1 ji4) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Chinese: 胎兒 /胎儿 (thai-jî) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 胎兒 /胎儿 (tāir) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 胎 (tāi) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Czech: plod — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Danish: foster — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Dutch: foetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Egyptian: G3-i-i-D53 (mꜣy) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Esperanto: feto — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Estonian: loode — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Estonian: feetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Faroese: fostur — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Finnish: sikiö — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• French: fœtus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• French: fétus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Galician: feto — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Georgian: ნაყოფი (naq̇opi) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• German: Fötus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Greek: έμβρυο (émvryo) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Ancient Greek: ἔμβρυον (émbruon) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Ancient Greek: κύημα (kúēma) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Greenlandic: naartu — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Greenlandic: ilumiu — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Greenlandic: naartoq — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Hebrew: עוּבָּר ('ubar) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Hebrew: שְׁלִיל (shlil) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Hindi: भ्रूण (bhrūṇ) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Hungarian: magzat — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Icelandic: fóstur — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Ido: feto — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Indonesian: janin — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Irish: féatas — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Italian: feto — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Japanese: 胎児 (taiji) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Kazakh: ұрық (ūryq) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Khmer: គភ៌ (kɔə) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Korean: 태아 (taea) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Northern Kurdish: korpele — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Northern Kurdish: korpele — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Northern Kurdish: cenîn — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Northern Kurdish: fetûs — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Kyrgyz: урук (uruk) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Kyrgyz: түйүлдүк (tüyüldük) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Lao: ຈາວ (chāo) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Lao: ພັນ (phan) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Latin: fētus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Latvian: auglis — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Lithuanian: vaisius — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Macedonian: фетус (fetus) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Macedonian: плод (plod) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Malay: fetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Malay: janin — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: foster — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: foster — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Occitan: fètus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Old Norse: fóstr — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Pashto: جنين (janin) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Dari: جَنِین (janīn) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Iranian Persian: جَنین (janin) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Polish: płód — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Portuguese: feto — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Punjabi: ਭਰੂਣ (bharūṇ) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Quechua: sullu — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Romanian: făt — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Russian: плод (plod) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Russian: заро́дыш (zaródyš) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Russian: эмбрио́н (embrión) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Northern Sami: ohki — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Sanskrit: गर्भ (garbha) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Sanskrit: भ्रूण (bhrūṇa) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Serbo-Croatian: фе́тус — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Serbo-Croatian: пло̑д — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Serbo-Croatian: fétus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Serbo-Croatian: plȏd — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Slovak: plod — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Slovene: fetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Slovene: plod — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Spanish: feto — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Swedish: foster — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Tajik: ҳомила (homila) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Tajik: ҷанин (janin) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Tajik: нутфа (nutfa) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Tamil: கரு (karu) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Tatar: яралгы (yaralğı) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Thai: ทารกในครรภ์ (taa-rók-nai-kan) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Tooro: enda — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Turkish: fetus — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Turkish: cenin — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Turkmen: şine — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Ukrainian: плід (plid) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Ukrainian: заро́док (zaródok) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Ukrainian: ембріо́н (embrión) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Urdu: جَنِین (janīn) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Uyghur: ھامىلە (hamile) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Uzbek: homila — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Uzbek: urugʻ — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Uzbek: embrion — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Vietnamese: thai — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Vietnamese: bào thai — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Welsh: ffetws — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Welsh: rhith — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal
• Yiddish: וולד (vlad) — an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal