Meanings
- plural of entrail
- archaicThe internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.
1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, →ISBN, page 244Synonyms: bowels, inmeat, innards, intestines, offal, viscera
- archaicobsoleteThe seat of the emotions.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
More synonyms by meaning
nouninternal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininterānea
- Vulgar Latinintrālia
- Old Frenchentrailles
- Middle Englishentraille
- Englishentrails
From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans ingewande
- ingewandeinternal organs
Ancient Greek σπλάγχνα, ἔγκατα
- σπλάγχνα (splánkhna)internal organs
- ἔγκατα (énkata)internal organs
Arabic فَرَث
- فَرَث (faraṯ)internal organs
Basque errai
- erraiinternal organs
Bulgarian въ́трешности
- въ́трешности (vắtrešnosti)internal organs
Czech vnitřnosti
- vnitřnostiinternal organs
Danish indvolde
- indvoldeinternal organs
Dutch ingewanden
- ingewandeninternal organs
Finnish sisälmykset, sisäelimet
- sisälmyksetinternal organs
- sisäelimetinternal organs
French entrailles
- entraillesinternal organs
German Eingeweide
- Eingeweideinternal organs
Greek σπλάγχνα, σωθικά
- σπλάγχνα (splánchna)internal organs
- σωθικά (sothiká)internal organs
Hindi ओझ
- ओझ (ojh)internal organs
Irish abach
- abachinternal organs
Italian interiora, frattaglie
- interiorainternal organs
- frattaglieinternal organs
- rigaglieinternal organs
- entraglieinternal organs
Māori whēkau
- whēkauinternal organs
Norwegian innvoller
- innvollerinternal organs
Persian امعا و احشا, دل و روده
- امعا و احشا (am'â-o-ahšâ)internal organs
- دل و روده (del-o-rude)internal organs
Polish bebechy, wątpia
- bebechyinternal organs
- wątpiainternal organs
- wnętrznościinternal organs
- trzewiainternal organs
Portuguese entranhas
- entranhasinternal organs
Romanian mațe
- mațeinternal organs
Russian вну́тренности
- вну́тренности (vnútrennosti)internal organs
Slovak útroba
- útrobainternal organs
Spanish entrañas, mondongo
- entrañasinternal organs
- mondongointernal organs
Swedish inälvor
- inälvorinternal organs
Ukrainian вну́трощі
- вну́трощі (vnútrošči)internal organs
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Cite this entry
entrails. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrails
“entrails.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrails. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entrails,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrails.
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