thalamus

See also: Thalamus

English

Etymology

From Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “an inner chamber, a bedroom, a bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθæləməs/

Noun

thalamus (plural thalami or thalamuses)

1. (neuroanatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.

   Holonym: diencephalon

2. (botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
3. A thallus.
4. An inner room or nuptial chamber.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hypothalamus
• thalamectomy
• thalamic
• thalamically

Related terms

• thalamo-

Translations

anatomy: structure within forebrain

• Arabic: المِهاد m (al-mihaad)
• Bengali: থ্যালামাস (bn) (thêlamaś)
• Catalan: tàlem (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丘腦／丘脑 (jau¹ nou⁵)

  Mandarin: 丘腦／丘脑 (zh) (qiūnǎo)

• Corsican: talamu m
• Czech: thalamus m, talamus m
• Dutch: thalamus (nl) m
• Esperanto: talamo
• Finnish: talamus
• French: thalamus (fr) m
• Friulian: talam m
• German: Thalamus (de) m
• Greek: θάλαμος (el) m (thálamos)
• Hungarian: talamusz (hu), látótelep
• Irish: talamas m
• Italian: talamo (it) m
• Japanese: 視床 (ja) (ししょう, shishō)
• Kazakh: көру төмпегі (köru tömpegı)
• Korean: 시상(視床) (ko) (sisang)
• Malay: talamus
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: تالاموس (fa) (tâlâmus)
• Polish: wzgórze (pl) n
• Portuguese: tálamo (pt) m
• Russian: тала́мус (ru) m (talámus)
• Spanish: tálamo (es) m
• Swedish: talamus (sv)
• Turkish: talamus, duyu odası
• Ukrainian: тала́мус m (talámus)
• Vietnamese: đồi não, đồi thị

botany:receptacle of a flower — see receptacle

thallus — see thallus

Further reading

• “thalamus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “thalamus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “thalamus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech

Alternative forms

• talamus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtalamus]

Noun

thalamus m inan

1. thalamus

Declension

Declension of thalamus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	thalamus	thalamy
genitive	thalamu	thalamů
dative	thalamu	thalamům
accusative	thalamus	thalamy
vocative	thalame	thalamy
locative	thalamu	thalamech
instrumental	thalamem	thalamy

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos).

Noun

thalamus m (plural thalamus)

1. (anatomy) thalamus

Derived terms

• thalamique

Further reading

• “thalamus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner room”), especially from Homer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰa.la.mus/, [ˈt̪ʰäɫ̪ämʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.la.mus/, [ˈt̪äːlämus]

Noun

thalamus m (genitive thalamī); second declension

1. inner room, apartment of a house
2. bedroom, chamber
3. marriage bed
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.689–690:

     crēdit amāns thalamōsque parat, dēdūcitur illūc Ānnā tegēns voltus, ut nova nūpta, suōs.

     The lover believes her, and prepares a bedchamber. Anna, covering her face as a new bride, is escorted to it. (trans. Anne and Peter Wiseman, 2011)

4. (by extension, figuratively) marriage

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thalamus	thalamī
Genitive	thalamī	thalamōrum
Dative	thalamō	thalamīs
Accusative	thalamum	thalamōs
Ablative	thalamō	thalamīs
Vocative	thalame	thalamī

Descendants

• → Catalan: tàlem
• → English: thalamus
• → French: thalamus
• Galician: tambo (obsolete)
• Italian: talamo
• Sicilian: tàlamu
• Spanish: tálamo

References

• “thalamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “thalamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thalamus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• thalamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “thalamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “thalamus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray