spleen

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
3. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
5. (countable, uncountable) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
2. To annoy or irritate.
3. (ambitransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
4. To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
5. To excise or remove.

Conceptes

melsa

braç

iracúndia

irascibilitat

Sinònims

milt

anger

💢

lien

melancholy

melancholia

bile

spite

choler

irascibility

temper

dander

gall

pancreas

quick temper

short temper

malevolence

maliciousness

malignance

meanness

miff

nastiness

rage

😡

spitefulness

stinger

tantrum

unkindness

wrath

mulligrubs

one’s side

depression

enlarged spleen

wrathiness

lieno

spleno

splenic organ

adze

the blues

aggravation

angriness

bitchiness

blues

cut

deviltry

discontent

dudgeon

fretfulness

fume

gall bladder

grudge

huff

Traduccions

rate

bazo

Milz

milza

baço

milt

lien

σπλήνα

طحال

dalak

splen

esplim

spleen

σπλήνας

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/spliːn/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: splene

In summary

From Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, esplen, from Latin splēn (“milt”), from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “the spleen”). Doublet of lien. Partially displaced the native English term milt.