Etymology

vesica

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Today it means: A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder. Full definition →

Latin vēsīca
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromvēsīca“bladder”
  2. English todayvesica

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

Words from the same roots

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