sēsamoīdes¹

Meaning

1. a name given to various plants resembling sesame

Declension

Origins

From Ancient Greek σησᾰμοειδής (sēsămoeidḗs, “sesame-shaped”) (neuter σησαμοειδές (sēsamoeidés)), from σήσᾰμον (sḗsămon, “sesame”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “shaped”).

Meaning

1. one terminationsesamoid
   Carpus constituitur ex ossibus octo; Metacarpus ex quatuor; Digiti ex quindecima [sic.] quibus ossicula Sesamoida, sic dicta à Sesami figura, in internodiis implicantur. [...] Ossa Tharsi sunt septem; Metatharsi quinque; Digitorum quatuordecim : quibus, ut in manu, sua ossa Sesamoida in internodiis implicantur.The carpus consists of eight bones; the metacarpus of four; the fingers of fifteenth [typo for quindecim 'fifteen'] of which the sesamoid ossicles, so called after the shape of sesame, are enveloped in the joints. … The bones of the tarsus are seven; of the metatarsus five; of the toes fourteen; of which, as in the hand, their sesamoid bones are enveloped in the joints.Antoine Goudin (1859), Philosophia juxta inconcussa tutissimaque D. Thomae Dogmata quatuor tomis comprehensa auctore P. F. Antonio Goudin ... editio novissima, page 501:
   In censu quoque ossiculorum sesamoidum poni debent duo, quae in poplite inferioribus femoris appendicibus apponuntur, duorum priorum pedem moventium musculorum principiis inhaerent.Wenzel Gruber (1876), “Monographie über die aus wahren (hyalinischen) Cartilagines praeformirten Ossicula Sesamoidea in den Ursprungssehnen der Köpfe des Musculus Gastrocnemius bei dem Menschen und bei den Säugethieren”, in Mémoires de l'Academie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, volume 22, page 6

Declension

Origins

From Ancient Greek σησᾰμοειδής (sēsămoeidḗs, “sesame-shaped”) (neuter σησαμοειδές (sēsamoeidés)), from σήσᾰμον (sḗsămon, “sesame”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “shaped”).