caldumen
Latin
Alternative forms
- caldūna f (after Old French chaudun)
Etymology
From caldus (“warm”) + -men (abstract nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaɫˈduː.mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kal̪ˈd̪uː.men]
Noun
caldūmen n (genitive caldūminis); third declension
- (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)
- ⇒ Catalan: escaldum (< *excaldūmen)
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ "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)
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*caldūmen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 78
- ^ 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, , →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 31