caldumen

Latin

Alternative forms

  • caldūna f (after Old French chaudun)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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).

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 Venetan: caldume
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: chaudun, caldun, caudun (Northern) (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: escaldum (< *excaldūmen)
      • Spanish: escaldón (Canarian)
  • Borrowings:
    • Albanian: gardump
    • ? 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, 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, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 31