retina

Etymology
From, borrowing from , ellipsis of , used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye. The phrase is attested in the 12th century in Guillelmus the abbot and Gerard of Cremona—the latter may have created this phrase as a translation for "net-like layer", which translates, which is attested in the ancient medical writer Galen.

Noun

 * 1)  The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.

Translations

 * Arabic: شَبَكِيَّة عَيْن, شَبَكِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: сятча́тка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: рети́на
 * Burmese: မြင်လွှာ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ;
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: retino
 * Estonian: võrkkest
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: रेटिना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: reitine
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ចិត្របដ, រ៉េទីន
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lao: ຈັກຂຸປະສາດ
 * Latvian: tīklene
 * Lithuanian: tinklainė
 * Macedonian: мре́жница
 * Malay:
 * Maori: āhuahua, mata tuaroa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: netthinne
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ретина, мрежница, мрежњача
 * Roman:, , mrežnjača
 * Slovak: sietnica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: busilig
 * Thai: จอตา
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: сіткі́вка, рети́на
 * Urdu:, ریٹنا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:

Etymology
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Etymology
From, the diminutive form of , probably from , used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye.

Noun

 * 1)  retina

Etymology
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Etymology
From, the diminutive form of.

Noun

 * 1)  retina the thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into neural signals sent to the brain

Noun

 * 1) retina

Etymology 1
The original sense (Etymology 2) of retina, but given a specific anatomical meaning.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) small net
 * 2) hairnet
 * 1) hairnet

Etymology 1
Generally explained as a deverbal of. Alternatively, derived from ("reins" - far more common than the singular ), reinterpreted as a feminine diminutive and back-formed into. Attested in the Glossarium Ansileubi, which was written between 650 and 800 CE.

Noun

 * 1) rein strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control an animal

Descendants

 * Italo-Romance:
 * (plural )
 * Tuscan:
 * North Italian:
 * Gallo-Italic:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Gallo-Italic:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Occitano-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:

Adjective




Etymology 3
Ellipsis of, referring to the fibrillar texture of the eye's retina. The phrase is attested since at least the 12th century, and this noun usage since the 13th c.

Noun

 * 1)  the retina of an eye

Etymology 4
An etymologising spelling, closer to the word’s etymon.

Noun

 * 1)  thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball