Noun: artere
| Singular | artere |
| Plural | arteres |
Sample Sentences
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My fate cries out
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And makes each petty artere in this body
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As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. [c. 1599-1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene iv, lines 81–83:]
Nouns inflected like artere
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe; artery”). See: Middle English Nouns '
arterie', Latin Nouns '
artēria'.