Achilles tendon

Achilles' tendon English thumb thumb|upright|explainer video about the human achilles tendon Alternative forms en Achilles' tendon tendon of Achilles Etymology en la-new tendo Achillis, in reference to the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the Styx River Styx. Its coinage has been attributed to Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyden in 1693, but the term is first attested in 1684.en Sawai Tadashi 2025 Reappraisal of the Etymology of tendo Achillis: Achilles, the Aggressor or the Sufferer? Clinical Anatomy 38 7 770–779 10.1002/ca.24217 Pronunciation en /əˈkɪliːz tɛndən/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Achilles tendon.wav Southern England Noun en anatomy The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, and inserted into the bone of the heel. en calcaneal tendon tendo Achillis tendo calcaneus en Sam Joseph Aaron Rodgers writes off this season as ‘lost year,’ but quarterback says he feels ‘I can play more years’ in NFL w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/sport/aaron-rodgers-season-over-ny-jets-spt-intl 2023-12-20 Superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon just four snaps into his New York Jets career, has written off this season as a “lost year,” though he feels he can “play more years” in the NFL. https://web.archive.org/web/20251112001046/https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/sport/aaron-rodgers-season-over-ny-jets-spt-intl 12 November 2025 Derived terms en Achilles tendon reflex time Related terms en Achilles jerk Achilles reflex Translations strong tendon in the calf of the leg Albanian: sq Arabic: ar وَتَر أَخِيل m, ar عُرْقُوب m Armenian: hy աքիլեսյան ջիլ Azerbaijani: az Axilles vətəri Bulgarian: bg ахилесово сухожилие n Burmese: my ဖနောင့်ကြော Catalan: ca tendó d'Aquil·les Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 跟腱 gēnjiàn Czech: cs Achillova šlacha f Danish: da akillessene c Dutch: nl achillespees f Esperanto: eo aĥila tendeno Faroese: fo hælsina f, fo hælspong f Finnish: fi akillesjänne French: fr tendon d’Achille m Frisian: West Frisian: fy achillessine Georgian: ka აქილევსის მყესი German: de Achillessehne f Greek: el αχίλλειος τένοντας m Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: gug pytasã Hungarian: hu Achilles-ín Icelandic: is hásin f Indonesian: id tendon achilles Interlingua: ia tendon de Achilles Italian: it tendine di Achille m Japanese: ja アキレス腱 ja アキレスけん, akiresu-ken Khmer: km សរសៃពួរកែង sɑɑ say puə kaeŋ Korean: ko 아킬레스건 Lao: lo Latin: la tendo calcaneus m, la tendo Achillis m Latvian: lv Ahileja cīpsla f Lithuanian: lt kulninė sausgyslė f Macedonian: mk Ахилова тетива f Malay: ms keting, ms urat tumit Māori: mi iohere punga Norwegian: Bokmål: nb akillessene m f Nynorsk: nn akillessen f, nn akillessene f Polish: pl ścięgno Achillesa n Portuguese: pt tendão de Aquiles m Romanian: ro tendonul lui Ahile n Russian: ru ахи́ллово сухожи́лие n, ru пя́точное сухожи́лие n Sami: Northern Sami: se šušmesuotna Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Ахилова тетива f Latin: sh Ahilova tetiva f Slovak: sk Achillova šľacha f Spanish: es tendón aquíleo m, es tendón de Aquiles m, es tendón calcáneo m Swedish: sv hälsena c, sv akillessena Tagalog: tl litid ni Akiles, tl litid ni Aquiles Thai: th Tupinambá: tpn pytasama Turkish: tr Aşil tendonu Ottoman Turkish: ota اگریجه eğrice, ota عرقوب ʿurkub, ota اوكچه سڭیری ökçe siñiri, ota صاچ اوزادان saç uzadan Ukrainian: uk ахіллове сухожилля n, uk п'яткове сухожилля n Vietnamese: vi gân gót chân, vi gân Achilles, vi gân A-sin Welsh: cy gweyllen y ffêr f References Further reading en eponyms terms derived from Greek mythology