omasum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin omāsum. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /oʊˈmeɪsəm/ Rhymes: -eɪsəm === Noun === omasum (plural omasums or omasa) (biology, food) The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the lining of said compartment, regarded as a foodstuff. Synonyms: bible, leaf tripe, manyplies, psalterium Hypernyms: compartment, tripe Coordinate terms: abomasum, reticulum, rumen ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Attested in the 1st century CE. Transmitted in Val. Max. 8, 1. damn. 8 a gloss τῇ τῶν Γάλλων γλώττῃ (tēî tôn Gállōn glṓttēi), from Gaulish. This leaves considered a borrowing from the Punic descendant of Proto-Semitic *ḥamṯ- (“abdomen”), since the voiceless pharyngeal fricative there would have been weakened by that time and southern Gaul was teeming with Punic colonies. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔˈmaː.sũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈmaː.s̬um] === Noun === omāsum n (genitive omāsī); second declension The tripe of a bull. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== English: omasum Italian: omaso === References === “omasum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “omasum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “omasum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.