reticulum

See also: Reticulum and réticulum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle.

Noun

reticulum (plural reticula or reticulums)

(biology) A network. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell.
A pattern of interconnected objects.
(zoology) The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.
- 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:
  As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.
(cooking) The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).
Synonym: honeycomb tripe

Related terms

reticle
reticulate
reticulated
reticulation

Translations

cytology: cell network

German: Retikulum (de) n
Hungarian: retikulum, sejthálózat, hálózat (hu)
Romanian: reticul (ro) n

zoology: second stomach of a ruminant

Albanian: aliver (sq) m, nanuq (sq) m, kësulë (sq) f
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: قَلَنْسُوَة‎ f (qalansuwa)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: се́тка f (sjétka)
Breton: boned (br) m
Bulgarian: втори стомах m (vtori stomah)
Catalan: reticle m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蜂巢胃 (zh) (fēngcháowèi), 金錢肚 (jīnqiándǔ)
Czech: čepec m
Danish: netmave (da) c
Dutch: netmaag (nl) m
Esperanto: centipelio
Faroese: keppur m
Finnish: verkkomaha (fi)
French: réticulum (fr) m, réseau (fr) m, bonnet (fr) m
Galician: retículo (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Netzmagen (de) m, Retikulum (de) n
Greek: δίκτυο (el) n (díktyo)
Ancient: κεκρύφαλος m (kekrúphalos)
Hebrew: בית הכוסות‎ m (bet hakosót)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: recésgyomor
Ido: retikulo (io)
Indonesian: retikulum
Interlingua: reticulo
Italian: reticolo (it) m
Japanese: ハチノス (hachinosu)
Kannada: ರೆಟಿಕ್ಯುಲಮ್ (reṭikyulam)
Kazakh: жұмыршақ (jūmyrşaq)
Korean: 벌집위 (beoljibwi)
Latvian: aceknis m
Limburgish: nètmaag
Lithuanian: tinklainis m
Lule Sami: tjalmas
Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
Malagasy: masontantely (mg)
Malay: retikulum
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Northern Sami: čalmmas
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nettmage
Ottoman Turkish: شیردن‎ (şirden)
Polish: czepiec (pl) m
Portuguese: retículo m, barrete (pt) m
Romanian: ciur (ro) n, rețea (ro) f, reticulum n
Russian: се́тка (ru) f (sétka), рети́кулум (ru) m (retíkulum)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀пура m
Latin: kàpura (sh) m
Slovak: sieťka f
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: redecilla (es) f, retículo (es) m
Swedish: nätmage
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)
Tigre: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: dạ tổ ong
Welsh: rhwyden f, poten rwydog f, ail stumog f

honeycomb tripe (food)

Bulgarian: шкембе (bg) n (škembe)
Korean: 벌집양 (beoljibyang)

Latin

Alternative forms

rētiāculum
rēticulus

Etymology

From rēte (“net, snare”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /reːˈti.ku.lum/, [reːˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈti.ku.lum/, [reˈt̪iːkulum]

Noun

rēticulum n (genitive rēticulī); second declension

a net
a fishnet
a hairnet
a network
a colander
an omentum
(later Latin): a reticle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rēticulum	rēticula
Genitive	rēticulī	rēticulōrum
Dative	rēticulō	rēticulīs
Accusative	rēticulum	rēticula
Ablative	rēticulō	rēticulīs
Vocative	rēticulum	rēticula

Derived terms

rēticulātus

Descendants

English: reticle
Italian: reticolo
Portuguese: retículo, retícula

References

“reticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“reticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
reticulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette