legumen
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin legūmen. Doublet of legume.
Noun
legumen (plural legumens or legumina)
- Dated form of legume.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for legumen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly connected to legere (“to gather”)[1] because they can be scooped up in the hand. The second element appears to be the common noun-forming suffix -men, but the connecting -ū- is unexplained. Alternatively, a loanword from some other language, but no cognates have been identified.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /leˈɡuː.men/, [ɫ̪ɛˈɡuːmɛn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leˈɡu.men/, [leˈɡuːmen]
Noun
legūmen n (genitive legūminis); third declension
- pulse, legume (leguminous plant)
- bean (plant)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | legūmen | legūmina |
| Genitive | legūminis | legūminum |
| Dative | legūminī | legūminibus |
| Accusative | legūmen | legūmina |
| Ablative | legūmine | legūminibus |
| Vocative | legūmen | legūmina |
Descendants
- Catalan: llegum
- → English: legumen (learned)
- → French: légume
- → English: legume
- → Esperanto: legomo
- Friulian: liùm
- Galician: legume
- Italian: legume
- Occitan: legum
- Old French: legun, leun
- Portuguese: legume
- Romanian: legumă
- Sicilian: lijumi
- Spanish: legumbre
- Venetian: legùmo
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “legō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
- “legumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “legumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- legumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin legumen.
Noun
legumen n (plural legumene)
- legume (The fruit or seed of leguminous plants)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) legumen | legumenul | (niște) legumene | legumenele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) legumen | legumenului | (unor) legumene | legumenelor |
| vocative | legumenule | legumenelor | ||
References
- legumen in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN