omentum

Borrowed from Latin ōmentum.

• Rhymes: -ɛntəm

omentum (plural omentums or omenta)

1. (anatomy) Either of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera.

• greater omentum
• omental
• lesser omentum

Borrowed from another Italic language such as Umbrian 𐌖𐌌𐌄𐌍 (umen), 𐌖𐌌𐌍𐌄 (umne, “ointment”), from Proto-Italic *ongʷn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éngʷn̥ (“fat, butter”). Related to Latin unguen (“fat; ointment”)^[1] and formally to unguentum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

ōmentum n (genitive ōmentī); second declension

1. (anatomy) The adipose membrane which encloses the bowels.
2. The bowels
3. (anatomy) Any membrane which envelops an internal part of the body

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → Catalan: oment
• → English: omentum
• → Italian: omento
• → Spanish: omento

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

Unadapted borrowing from Latin omentum.

omentum n (plural omentumuri)

1. (anatomy) omentum

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