caldumen

caldumen

Latin

Alternative forms

• caldūna f (after Old French chaudun)

Etymology

From caldus (“warm”) +‎ -men (abstract nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈduː.men/, [käɫ̪ˈd̪uːmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈdu.men/, [käl̪ˈd̪uːmen]

Noun

caldūmen n (genitive caldūminis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) animal intestines, entrails[1][2]

   Synonym: viscus (Classical)

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caldūmen	caldūmina
Genitive	caldūminis	caldūminum
Dative	caldūminī	caldūminibus
Accusative	caldūmen	caldūmina
Ablative	caldūmine	caldūminibus
Vocative	caldūmen	caldūmina

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: caldume
  • Sicilian: caudumi, cuadumi, cuarumi, quarumi
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: caldôm
  • Old Venetian: caldume
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chaudun, caldun, caudun (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • ⇒ Catalan: escaldum (< *excaldūmen)
    • → Spanish: escaldón (Canarian)
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: gardump
    • → Greek: γαρδούμπα (gardoúmpa)
  • →? Byzantine Greek: γαρδούμιον (gardoúmion)
    • Greek: γαρδούμι (gardoúmi), γαρδούμια (gardoúmia)
    • →? Mishnaic Hebrew: גִּדּוּמֵי‎ (possibly for גִּרדּוּמֵי‎)[3]

References

1. caldumen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
2. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*caldūmen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 78
3. Katsikadeli, Christina (September 2018), “Language contact and contact induced change in the light of the (digital) lexicography of Greek loanwords in the Non-Indo-European languages of the Greco-Roman worlds (Coptic, Hebrew/Aramaic, Syriac)”, in Georgios K. Giannakis, Christoforos Charalambakis, Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, editors, Studies in Greek Lexicography (Trends in Classics –Supplementary Volumes; 72), De Gruyter, DOI:10.1515/9783110622744-202, →ISBN, ISSN 1868-4785, LCCN 2018961669, page 31