vestibular

See also: vestibulär

English

Etymology

From vestibule or vestibulum + -ar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɛˈstɪb.jʊl.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)

Adjective

vestibular (comparative more vestibular, superlative most vestibular) (relational)

1. Of or pertaining to a vestibule in a building (or railway coach).
   • 1861, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century‎^[1], page 158:

     […] while the outer world was fenced off by the interposed atrium or vestibular cloister, […] .

   • 1950 August, “Notes and News: Royal Train at Croydon”, in Railway Magazine, pages 569-570:

     Originally, it was intended that the stock should be vestibular throughout, but when the drawings were submitted to the Prince of Wales, he cut out this feature, saying that a railway journey afforded one of the very few occasions when he was able to enjoy absolute privacy—a feature which the vestibule would tend to abolish.

2. (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a vestibule (body cavity).
3. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the vestibule of the inner ear and the perception of body position, balance and movement.

   vestibular impulse

   • 1859, William James Erasmus Wilson, William H. Gobrecht, A System of Human Anatomy, General and Special:

     Ampulla of the perpendicular semicircular canal, receiving a fasciculus from the superior branch of the vestibular nerve […] .

4. (dentistry) Of or pertaining to the surface of a tooth that is directed outward toward the vestibule of the mouth, including the buccal and labial surfaces, and opposite the lingual (or oral) surface.

Antonyms

• nonvestibular

Coordinate terms

dentistry location adjectivesedit

• anterior
• apical
• apicocoronal
• axial
• buccal
• buccoapical
• buccocervical
• buccogingival
• buccolabial
• buccolingual
• bucco-occlusal
• buccopalatal
• cervical
• coronal
• coronoapical
• distal
• distoapical
• distobuccal
• distocclusal
• distocervical
• distoclusal
• distocoronal
• distofacial
• distogingival
• distoincisal
• distolingual
• disto-occlusal
• distopalatal
• facial
• gingival
• incisal
• incisocervical
• inferior
• labial
• lingual
• linguobuccal
• linguo-occlusal
• mandibular
• maxillary
• mesial
• mesioapical
• mesiobuccal
• mesiocclusal
• mesiocervical
• mesioclusal
• mesiocoronal
• mesiodistal
• mesiofacial
• mesiogingival
• mesioincisal
• mesiolingual
• mesio-occlusal
• mesiopalatal
• occlusal
• palatal
• posterior
• proximal
• superior
• vestibular

Derived terms

• audiovestibular
• cerebellovestibular
• cochleovestibular
• distovestibular
• extravestibular
• intervestibular
• lesser vestibular glands
• mediovestibular
• neurovestibular
• nonvestibular
• oculovestibular
• otovestibular
• paravestibular
• rectovestibular
• vestibular aqueduct
• vestibular duct
• vestibular fold
• vestibular ganglion
• vestibular gland
• vestibular ligament
• vestibular membrane
• vestibular nerve
• vestibular nucleus
• vestibular schwannoma
• vestibular sense
• vestibular system
• vestibular wall
• vestibular window
• visuovestibular

Related terms

• vestibule
• vestibulum

Translations

building

• Finnish: eteis- (fi)
• German: vestibulär (de)

anatomy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前庭的 (zh) (qiántíngde)

• Finnish: eteis- (fi), vestibulaarinen
• French: vestibulaire (fr)
• German: vestibular, vestibulär (de)
• Indonesian: vestibular
• Italian: vestibolare
• Kazakh: вестибулярлық (vestibulärlyq)
• Portuguese: vestibular (pt)
• Russian: вестибулярный (ru) (vestibuljarnyj)
• Spanish: vestibular

Noun

vestibular (plural vestibulars)

1. (education) A competitive examination used by Brazilian universities to select students.

   Synonyms: vestibular exam, vestibular examination

   • 2002, Malika Hollander, Brazil: The People, page 23:

     Students usually complete high school when they are seventeen years old. If they want to go to college or university, they must pass a difficult test called the vestibular, which takes two or three days to write.

References

• “vestibular”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “vestibular”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /vɛstiˈbular/ [fɛs.t̪iˈbu.lar]
• Rhymes: -ular
• Syllabification: ves‧ti‧bu‧lar

Adjective

vestibular (comparative lebih vestibular, superlative paling vestibular)

1. vestibular
   1. (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a vestibule (body cavity).
   2. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the vestibule of the inner ear and the perception of body position, balance and movement.

Related terms

• vestibula

Further reading

• “vestibular”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Portuguese

Etymology

From vestíbulo + -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ves.t͡ʃi.buˈlaʁ/ [ves.t͡ʃi.buˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ves.t͡ʃi.buˈlaʁ/ [ves.t͡ʃi.buˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ves.t͡ʃi.buˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʃ.t͡ʃi.buˈlaʁ/ [veʃ.t͡ʃi.buˈlaχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ves.t͡ʃi.buˈlaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨʃ.ti.buˈlaɾ/ [vɨʃ.ti.βuˈlaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨʃ.ti.buˈlaɾ/ [vɨʃ.ti.βuˈlaɾ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨʃ.ti.buˈlaɾ/ [bɨʃ.ti.βuˈlaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨʃ.ti.buˈla.ɾi/ [vɨʃ.ti.βuˈla.ɾi]

• Rhymes: -aʁ, -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ves‧ti‧bu‧lar

Noun

vestibular m (plural vestibulares)

1. (Brazil) an admittance test for Brazilian universities

Derived terms

• pré-vestibular
• prestar vestibular
• vestibulando

Adjective

vestibular m or f (plural vestibulares)

1. (anatomy) vestibular (relating to the vestibule)

Further reading

• “vestibular”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vestibular”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “vestibular” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “vestibular”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “vestibular”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “vestibular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vestibulaire.

Adjective

vestibular m or n (feminine singular vestibulară, masculine plural vestibulari, feminine/neuter plural vestibulare)

1. vestibular

Declension

Declension of vestibular

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	vestibular		vestibulară	vestibulari	vestibulare
	definite	vestibularul		vestibulara	vestibularii	vestibularele
genitive- dative	indefinite	vestibular		vestibulare	vestibulari	vestibulare
	definite	vestibularului		vestibularei	vestibularilor	vestibularelor

Spanish

Etymology

From vestíbulo + -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bestibuˈlaɾ/ [bes.t̪i.β̞uˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ves‧ti‧bu‧lar

Adjective

vestibular m or f (masculine and feminine plural vestibulares)

1. (anatomy) vestibular

Related terms

• vestíbulo