anus

First attested in 1658, borrowed from Old French anus, from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). See also anal, annular, annelid.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.nəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪnəs

anus (plural anuses or ani)

1. (anatomy) The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

• See Thesaurus:anus

• anal
• anally

• cloaca
• rectum

• NSAU, Naus, UNAs, USAN, USNA, Unas, naus, saun

Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.nus/

anus m (plural anus)

1. (anatomy) anus

• anell

Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.nʏs/

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• Hyphenation: anus

anus m (plural anussen or ani, diminutive anusje n)

1. anus

• aars
• poepgat (Netherlands)

• anusridder
• anusspier

• anaal

Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnus/, [ˈɑnus̠]

anus

1. anus

• see synonyms at peräaukko

• asun, nasu, suan, suna

Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring; anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”).

• IPA^(key): /a.nys/

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• Rhymes: -ys

anus m (plural anus)

1. (anatomy) anus

• (vulgar) trou du cul, trou de balle

• anneau

• “anus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). Possibly cognate with Old Armenian անուր (anur).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.nus/, [ˈaː.nʊs]

ānus m (genitive ānī); second declension

1. a ring
2. an anus

Second declension.

• ānālis
• ānulāris
• ānulārius
• ānulus

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“old woman”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀννίς (annís, “grandmother”), Old Armenian հան (han, “grandmother”), Lithuanian anyta (“mother-in-law”), Old High German ana (“grandmother”), ano (“grandfather”), Old Prussian ane (“grandmother”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.nus/, [ˈa.nʊs]

anus f (genitive anūs); fourth declension

1. old woman, crone
   • 11th to 13th century, In taberna quando sumus, from Carmina Burana:

     … bibit soror, bibit frater, / bibit anus, bibit mater, …

     (… the sister drinks, the brother drinks, / the old lady drinks, the mother drinks, …)

Fourth declension.

• anīlis
• anīlitās
• anīliter

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.nuːs/

anūs

1. genitive singular of anus
2. nominative plural of anus
3. accusative plural of anus
4. vocative plural of anus

• (anus): anus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (ring): anus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (crone): anus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• anus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• anus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

·anus

1. first-person singular future and present subjunctive conjunct of aingid

Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈanus]

anus n (plural anusuri)

1. (anatomy) anus

• anal
• inel

• anus in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed from Latin ānus (“ring, anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”).

anus n

1. (anatomy) anus