legumen

Borrowed from Latin legūmen. Doublet of legume.

• IPA^(key): /lɪˈɡjuːmən/
• Rhymes: -uːmən

legumen (plural legumens or legumina)

1. Dated form of legume.

• “legumen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• gluemen

Uncertain. Possibly connected to legere (“to gather”)^[1] because they can be scooped up in the hand. The second element appears to be the common noun-forming suffix -men, but the connecting -ū- is unexplained. Alternatively, a loanword from some other language, but no cognates have been identified.

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

legūmen n (genitive legūminis); third declension

1. pulse, legume (leguminous plant)
2. bean (plant)

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

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

Borrowed from Latin legumen.

legumen n (plural legumene)

1. legume (The fruit or seed of leguminous plants)

• legumen in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN