glottis

Late 16th century borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttís, “mouth of the windpipe”), from γλῶττᾰ (glôtta, “tongue”) +‎ -ῐς (-is, feminine noun suffix). Cognates include Latin gula.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒ.tɪs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑ.tɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪs

glottis (plural glottises or glottides)

1. (anatomy) The opening between the true vocal cords which is located in the larynx and affects voice modulation through expansion or contraction.

• glottalise, glottalize
• -glot
• proglottis

• “glottis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “glottis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Learned borrowing from New Latin glōttis, from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttís).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlotːis/, [ˈɡlo̞t̪ːis̠]
• Rhymes: -otːis
• Syllabification^(key): glot‧tis

glottis

1. (anatomy) glottis

Borrowing from Ancient Greek γλωττῐ́ς (glōttís, “mouth of the windpipe; corncrake”), from γλῶττᾰ (glôtta, “tongue”) +‎ -ῐς (-is, feminine noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡloːt.tis/, [ˈɡɫ̪oːt̪ːɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlot.tis/, [ˈɡlɔt̪ːis]

glōttis f (genitive glōttidis); third declension

1. a little bird
2. (New Latin, anatomy) the glottis

Third-declension noun.

• hypoglōttion

• “glottis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• glottis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette