rumen

Borrowed from Latin rūmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.mən/

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• Rhymes: -uːmən

rumen (plural rumina or rumens)

1. The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants.

   Synonyms: paunch, fack, fardingbag

   Hypernyms: compartment, tripe

   Coordinate terms: abomasum, omasum, reticulum

   • 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:

     In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809). As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.

Borrowed from Latin rūmen.

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.mɛn/

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rumen m (plural rumens)

1. rumen (stomach)

• “rumen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

rumen

1. Romanian

• rūma

From Proto-Italic *roug(s)mən ~ *rug(s)mən, of somewhat disputed origin. Probably from the root of *rūgō +‎ -men, attested in ērūgō, rūctō (“I belch”) and rugiō (“I roar, rumble, bray”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewg-, *h₁rewǵ- (“to belch”).^[1]

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρεύγομαι (ereúgomai, “I spew out, discharge, belch, bellow”), Old Armenian ործամ (orcam, “I vomit, am nauseated”), Proto-Germanic *reukaną (“to smoke, emit vapor”) (modern English reek).

Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *sréwmn̥, from the root *srew- (“to flow”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) See also Rōma and flūmen, which are sometimes hypothesized as from the same source.
A third possibility is a relationship with Etruscan 𐌓𐌖𐌌 (rum, “teat”). If not coincidental, it may be equally likely that the Etruscan word was borrowed from Latin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.men]

rūmen n (genitive rūminis); third declension

1. throat, gullet
2. (anatomy) rumen (first stomach of a ruminant)

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• rūminātiō
• rūminō
• rūminor

• → Catalan: rumen
• → English: rumen
• → Italian: rumine

• “rumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• rumen in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• IPA^(key): /ˌrʉˈmeːn/

rumen m (definite singular rumenen, indefinite plural rumenar, definite plural rumenane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of rumenar

Borrowed from French rumen.

rumen n (plural rumene)

1. rumen

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic роумѣнъ (ruměnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ruměnъ (“ruddy”). Compare Bulgarian румен (rumen), Serbo-Croatian rumen.

rumen m or n (feminine singular rumenă, masculine plural rumeni, feminine and neuter plural rumene)

1. ruddy

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ruměnъ.

• IPA^(key): /rǔmen/
• Hyphenation: ru‧men

rùmen (Cyrillic spelling ру̀мен, definite rùmenī, comparative rumeniji)

1. rosy, ruddy, pink
2. reddish, red

• “rumen”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Nominalized from the previous sense.

• IPA^(key): /rûmeːn/
• Hyphenation: ru‧men

rȕmēn f (Cyrillic spelling ру̏ме̄н)

1. (uncountable) rosiness

• “rumen”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *ruměnъ.

• IPA^(key): /rumɛ́n/

rumȅn (comparative bȍlj rumȅn, superlative nȁjbolj rumȅn)

1. yellow

• rumenják

• “rumen”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “rumen”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈrumen/ [ˈru.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: ru‧men

rumen m (plural rúmenes)

1. rumen
   • 2022 November 10, María Teresa Paramio, “¿Es nueva la producción de alimentos en macrogranjas?”, in El País‎^[2]:

     El amoniaco procede de las heces y la orina de los animales; el CO₂ de su respiración y el metano lo expulsan los rumiantes por la boca, no por las ventosidades, como se dice frecuentemente, debido a la fermentación de los alimentos en su rumen, que es una de las partes del aparato digestivo de los rumiantes.

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