Stomach
nounThe internal organ where food is digested, or the front part of the body around the belly.
How to spell stomach
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce stomach
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does stomach mean?
- nounThe internal organ where food is digested, or the front part of the body around the belly.
- verbTo tolerate or endure something unpleasant.
Stomach in a sentence
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noun
I've got a stomach ache.
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verb
He could not stomach the thought of another long commute.
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noun
His stomach was rumbling well before lunch.
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verb
Few investors can stomach that level of financial risk.
Where does stomach come from?
Language of origin: Greek
The word comes from the Greek stomachos, which first meant the throat or gullet, the narrow opening leading into the body. It was built on stoma, the Greek word for 'mouth', and over time stomachos came to name the opening of the belly and then the belly itself. Latin borrowed it as stomachus, and from there it passed through Old French into English in the 1300s. Interestingly, the Latin word also carried a sense of temper or pride, which survives in English phrases like 'no stomach for a fight'. The silent, almost swallowed 'ch' ending (pronounced like a hard 'k') is a fossil of that Greek origin, and it is exactly the spot that trips writers who expect it to sound like the 'ch' in 'chair'.
How the word is built
- stomach (from Greek stomachos: gullet, opening), originally from stoma 'mouth'
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