medulla

Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).

• IPA^(key): /məˈdʌlə/, /mɛdʌlə/, [məˈdɐlə], [mɛˈdɐlə]

• (US)IPA^(key): /məˈdulə/, [məˈdʉɫə]

medulla (plural medullas or medullae or medullæ)

1. The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.
2. (anatomy) The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.
3. (anatomy, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
4. (botany) The internal tissue of a plant.

• medulla oblongata
• medullar
• medullary
• medulloblastoma
• renal medulla

medulla (plural medullas)

1. medulla

Uncertain, perhaps related to Latin medius, or Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈdul.la/, [mɛˈd̪ʊlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈdul.la/, [meˈd̪ulːä]

medulla f (genitive medullae); first declension

1. (anatomy) marrow

First-declension noun.

• medullitus
• medullula
• *medullum

• “medulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “medulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medulla 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)
• medulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niedermann, Max (1950) “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum‎, pages 156–157