Latin

Noun

splēn m ‎(genitive splēnis); third declension

1. spleen, milt

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• lien

Derived terms

• spleneticus
• splenicus

Descendants

• English: spleen
• Old French: esplen
• Romanian: splină
• Spanish: esplene

References

• splen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “splen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.