artere means sinew, ligament, tendon, artery.
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Etymology
Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe; artery”).
noun
- sinew, ligament, tendon, arterye.g.“My fate cries out
And makes each petty artere in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.” — c. 1599-1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene iv, lines 81–83:
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