Patella

Definitions: Patella

Patella

Noun

1. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.

2. Type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets.

Date "patella" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Patella \Pa*tel"la\, noun; plural Patell[ae]. [Latin expression, small pan, the kneepan, diminutive of patina, patena, pan, dish.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	The flat, triangular bone situated at the anterior part of the knee. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The patella or kneecap is a thick, triangular bone which articulates with the femur and covers and protects the front of the knee joint. It develops from the tendon of the Quadriceps femoris muscle, which contracts to straighten the leg. The patella increases the leverage that the tendon can exert on the femur by increasing the angle at which it acts.

Synonyms: Patella

Synonyms: genus Patella (n), kneecap (n), kneepan (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Patella

English words defined with "patella": articulatio genus ♦ Cramp bone ♦ genu, genus Patella ♦ knee, knee joint ♦ Patella vulgata, Patellae, patellar, Patelliform ♦ Rotula ♦ Stifle bone ♦ Whirlbone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "patella": beat knee ♦ Nail-Patella Syndrome ♦ Patellar Ligament. (references)

Etymologies containing "patella": Padella, Patellula. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Patella" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (patella), Italian (limpet, patella), Latin (dish, kneecap, paddle, pail, pan, patella, plate, platter, small pan), Swedish (patella).

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Pre Patella Bursitis (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods	Fluid Forms 1003F Patella T, Advanced Knee Protection for Carpet and Tile Installers (reference) Fluid Forms 1004F Patella T, Advanced Knee Protection for Roofers and Steel Workers (Use on Sloped Surfaces) (reference) Fluid Forms 2003 Men's Patella Bead Kneepad with Protective Cap (reference) Fluid Forms 2010 Men's Soft Cap with Supra Strap Patella Bead Kneepad (reference) Fluid Forms 3000 Women's Patella Bead Kneepad with Soft Cap (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Patella" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Patella" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	81.82%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	18.18%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "patella" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Patella	Last name	170	42,563
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "patella": genus Patella ♦ patella vulgata. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "patella": patella-tibia.
	Ending with "patella": Nail-Patella.
	Containing "patella": Nail-Patella Syndrome.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "patella"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kupë e gjurit (knee cap), kupë (beaker, canakin, canikin, cannikin, canonry, canopy, cap, chalice, cornet, cup, cupping glass, goblet, heart, jorum, Mazer, mug, plate, rummer, torus, tumbler, winebowl). (various references)

Arabic		‏العظم المتحرك في رأس الركبة. (various references)

Bulgarian		коленно капаче (kneecap), патела. (various references)

Chinese		臏 (kneecap), 膑骨 (Patellae), 髕骨 (kneecap). (various references)

Danish		patella (knee cap), knaeskal (knee cap), knæskallen. (various references)

Dutch		patella (knee cap), rotula, knieschijf (knee cap). (various references)

Farsi		کاسه زانو (Kneecap, Kneepan), طشت کوچک . (various references)

French		rotule. (various references)

German		Pfännchen, Patella, Kniescheibe (kneecap). (various references)

Greek		επιγονάτισ, επιγονάτιδα (kneecap), επιγονατίδα (knee band, knee bandage, knee cap, knee pad, knee protector, kneecap, knee-cap, kneesock, shin-guard). (various references)

Hebrew		פיקת �"ברך (kneecap). (various references)

Hungarian		térdkalács (knee pan, kneecap, knee-cap), agyagtál. (various references)

Indonesian		tempurung lutut (knee cap). (various references)

Italian		patella (knee cap, limpet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		膝�"�骨 (kneecap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しつがい�"つ (kneecap). (various references)

Korean		슬개골 (Patellae). (various references)

Manx		shliggan ny gliooney (knee-bone, whirlbone), plaiteen. (various references)

Pig Latin		atellapay

Portuguese		patela (knee cap, knee deep). (various references)

Romanian		tipsie (brazier, salver, tray). (various references)

Russian		коленная чашка (ball of the knee, knee cap, knee pan), надколенник (knee cap), пателла. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		čašica (knee cap, socket, stirrup cup). (various references)

Spanish		rótula (ball, ball of the knee, hinge, knee cap, kneecap, scutum). (various references)

Swedish		patella, skål (basin, bowl, box, cheerio, cheers, container, dish, feeder nose, feeder spout, good health, health, here's to you, jug, pan, pelvis, pledge, toast, vessel), knäskål (knee cap, knee pan, kneecap, knee-cap). (various references)

Turkish		dizkapağı (knee pan, kneecap). (various references)

Ukranian		колінна чашечка (kneecap), патела. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	patella. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "patella": patellae, patellar, patellas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Patella" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Batalla, Catella, cautella, Latilla, pagell, paletle, Pamell, pamella, panela, Panella, panelle, Panteli, parell, Parellada, Pataila, Patala, patel, patell, Patlak, Pattullo, Pazelli, Perella, Petrelle, Phacelia, Pisello, Pittilla, Plautilla, Potala, Potell, Potilla, powellii, Pratella, Puteoli, Puttalam. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "patella" (pronounced pute"lu)
4	-t e" l u	Stella, Tele.
3	-e" l u	Candela, cella, citronella, favela, fella, flagella, labella, novella, Prunella, rubella, salmonella, umbrella, Vela.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-p-t"
	-1 letter: paella, palate, paleal, pallet.
	-2 letters: alate, lapel, leapt, lepta, palea, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tepal.
	-3 letters: alae, atap, late, leal, leap, lept, pale, pall, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tala, tale, tall, tapa, tape, teal, tela, tell, tepa.
	-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, all, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, ell, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, pal, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea, tel.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, al, at, el, et, la, pa, pe, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-l-p-t"
	+1 letter: palliate, patellae, patellar, patellas.
	+2 letters: appellant, appellate, leadplant, palatable, palliated, palliates, palmately, papillate, placental, plantable, tailplane.
	+3 letters: appellants, carpellate, floatplane, leadplants, malapertly, paclitaxel, palatalize, palliative, parentally, paternally, placentals, plateglass, pleasantly, portabella, prenatally, tailplanes.
	+4 letters: acropetally, allelopathy, allopatries, aphetically, appellation, appellative, aseptically, basipetally, caterpillar, epitaxially, floatplanes, implantable, ipsilateral, paclitaxels, palatalized, palatalizes, palliatives, patrilineal, perinatally, planetoidal, portabellas, unpalatable.
	+5 letters: allelopathic, alphabetical, antiparallel, appellations, appellatives, archetypally, biparentally, caterpillars, empathically, emphatically, operatically, palatialness, palliatively, parenterally, pathetically, pedantically, pentagonally, planetesimal, premaritally, telencephala, trophallaxes, unpleasantly.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 74 65 6C 6C 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0074 0065 006C 006C 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
patella	126
chondromalacia patella	86
patella femoral syndrome	56
patella tendonitis	54
patella tendon	26
luxating patella	24
fracture patella	24
patella injury	15
patella dislocation	12
luxation patella	12
bipartite patella	11
fractured patella	10
alta patella	8
dislocated patella	8
femoral patella	7
patella pain	7
patella subluxation	7
patella syndrome	5
patella taping	4
broken patella	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Patella

Definitions: Patella

Patella

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Patella

Health

Specialty Definition: Patella

Synonyms: Patella

Synonyms within Context: Patella

Receptacle

Crosswords: Patella

Commercial Usage: Patella

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Usage Frequency: Patella

Name Usage Frequency: Patella

Expressions: Patella

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Patella

patella

chondromalacia patella

patella femoral syndrome

patella tendonitis

patella tendon

luxating patella

fracture patella

patella injury

patella dislocation

luxation patella

bipartite patella

fractured patella

alta patella

dislocated patella

femoral patella

patella pain

patella subluxation

patella syndrome

patella taping

broken patella

Modern Translations: Patella

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Ancestral Language Translations: Patella

Derivations & Misspellings: Patella

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Patella"

Anagrams: Patella

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Patella

50 61 74 65 6C 6C 61

Photos:
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