albumen

From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbjʊmən/, /ælˈbjuːmən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈalbjʊmɪn/

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• Rhymes: -uːmən
• Hyphenation: al‧bu‧men

albumen (countable and uncountable, plural albumens or albumina)

2. The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

   Synonyms: egg white, glair

   Coordinate term: yolk

   • 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎^[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:

     The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.

3. (archaic) The endosperm of flowering plants.

• albumin

• “albumen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

From albus (“white”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

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

albūmen n (genitive albūminis); third declension

1. albumen; the white of an egg

   Synonyms: albāmentum, albor, album

   Coordinate terms: vitellus, vitellum

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

• Old Catalan: album
• Old French: albun, aubun
  • Middle French: aubun, aubin
  • Walloon: åbin
• → English: albumen
• → Old French: albume
• → French: albumen m, ⇒ albumine f
  • → English: albumin
  • → Russian: альбуми́н m (alʹbumín)
  • → Spanish: albúmina f
• →? Italian: albume m (possibly inherited)
• → Romanian: albumen n
• → Spanish: albumen m
  • → Tagalog: albumen

• “albumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French albumen.

albumen n (uncountable)

1. albumen

Borrowed from Latin albūmen.

• IPA^(key): /alˈbumen/ [alˈβ̞u.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: al‧bu‧men

albumen m (plural albúmenes)

1. egg white, albumen

   Synonym: clara

• “albumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

albumen

1. definite plural of album

Borrowed from Spanish albumen, from Latin albūmen. Doublet of albumina.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalˈbumen/ [ʔɐlˈbuː.mɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: al‧bu‧men

albumen (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜋᜒᜈ᜔)

1. albumen (white part of an egg)

   Synonyms: puti ng itlog, klara, klaro ng itlog, kaputian ng itlog

2. (biology) albumen (endosperm)

   Synonym: endospermo

• “albumen”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “albumen”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 21