glande

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑ̃d/

Inherited from Old French glandre, from Medical Latin glandula, from glāns, glāndem.

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (biology) gland
2. (medicine, non-technical) swollen lymph node
3. (medicine, non-technical) tumor, growth

• gland

• → Romanian: glandă
• → Russian: гла́нда (glánda) (see there for further descendants)

Deverbal of glander.

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (slang) laze, lazing around, sloth

• “glande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Rhymes: -ande
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

glande f (plural glandes)

1. gland

• “glande”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

glande (plural glandes)

1. acorn

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet ghianda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/
• Rhymes: -ande
• Hyphenation: glàn‧de

glande m (plural glandi)

1. glans

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡɫ̪än̪d̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡlän̪d̪e]

glande

1. ablative singular of glāns

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande. Cf. also landra.

• Hyphenation: glan‧de

glande f (plural glandes)

1. acorn (fruit of the oak tree)

   Synonyms: bolota, bálano

2. glans (vascular body on the apex of the penis)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡlande]

glande f

1. inflection of glandă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande or llande, now mostly regional/dialectal terms. Cf. also landre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlande/ [ˈɡlãn̪.d̪e]
• Rhymes: -ande
• Syllabification: glan‧de

glande m (plural glandes)

1. (anatomy) glans penis

• “glande”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28