legumen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legūmen. Doublet of legume.

Noun

legumen (plural legumens or legumina)

  1. Dated form of legume.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for legumen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /leˈɡuː.men/, [ɫ̪ɛˈɡuːmɛn]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leˈɡu.men/, [leˈɡuːmen]

Noun

legūmen n (genitive legūminis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative legūmen legūmina
Genitive legūminis legūminum
Dative legūminī legūminibus
Accusative legūmen legūmina
Ablative legūmine legūminibus
Vocative legūmen legūmina

Descendants

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “legō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
  • “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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legumen.

Noun

legumen n (plural legumene)

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

Declension
Declension of legumen
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) legumen legumenul (niște) legumene legumenele
genitive/dative (unui) legumen legumenului (unor) legumene legumenelor
vocative legumenule legumenelor

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