diaphragm · midriff · the seat of human emotion, the heart
çekim: çoğul Zwerchfelle · tamlayan Zwerchfells
eş: Diaphragma
köken: zwerch + Fell, where zwerch is an Upper German variant of quer (“crosswise”) preserved only in a few compounds, and Fell is used in the older sense of “hide” extended to a membrane. The sense “seat of human emotion” was acquired as a calque of Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn).
diaphragm (sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen) · diaphragm (contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup) · diaphragm (thin, opaque structure with a central aperture)
çekim: çoğul diafragmas
eş: diafragma intrauterino
köken: From Latin diaphragma (“partition, diaphragm”), from Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma, “partition-wall, barrier; later midriff, diaphragm”), from διά (diá, “through”) + φράγμα (phrágma, “fence, screen”), from φράσσω (phrássō, “to fence in, hedge around”).
diaphragm (any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another) · diaphragm (sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen) · septum
çekim: çoğul διαφράγματα · tamlayan διαφράγματος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διάφραγμα (diáphragma) with semantic loan from French diaphragme for non-anatomical technical senses and English diaphragm for the contraceptive device.
diaphragm · a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse. · structure with a central aperture used to limit the passage of light.
çekim: çoğul diafragma-diafragma
köken: Borrowed from Dutch diafragma, from Middle Dutch diafragma, from Latin diaphragma, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́φρᾰγμᾰ (dĭắphrăgmă).