membrāna
membrāna
From membrum (“a limb or member of the body”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛmˈbraː.na]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [memˈbraː.na]
Noun
membrāna f (genitive membrānae); first declension
- (anatomy, zootomy) the skin or membrane that covers parts of the body; (especially) the skin or slough of snakes
- (transferred sense)
- (botany) the thin skin of plants and other things
- a skin prepared for writing, etc.; parchment
- (poetic) the surface, outside of a thing
Inflection
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | membrāna | membrānae |
| genitive | membrānae | membrānārum |
| dative | membrānae | membrānīs |
| accusative | membrānam | membrānās |
| ablative | membrānā | membrānīs |
| vocative | membrāna | membrānae |