placenta

Meaning

1. (declension-1, feminine) a placenta cake; a round cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.
2. (declension-1, feminine) a dessert cake of any type
3. (New-Latin, abbreviation, alt-of, declension-1, ellipsis, feminine) ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

Concepts

placenta

cake

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Translations

torta

🥧

placenta

placenta

placenta

gâteau

Kuchen

🥧

مشيمة

pastís

🥧

pâtisserie

Mutterkuchen

τούρτα

κέικ

Plazenta

pasticcino

placenta

Pronounced as (IPA)

[pɫaˈkɛn.ta]

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακοῦντα (plakoûnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).