caldumen

Latin

Alternative forms
  • caldūna f (after Old French chaudun)

Etymology

From caldus (“warm”) +‎ -men (abstract nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

caldūmen n (genitive caldūminis); third declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) animal intestines, entrails[1][2]
    Synonym: viscus (Classical)

Declension

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

Case 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 Venetian: caldume
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: chaudun, caldun, caudun (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • ⇒ Catalan: escaldum (< *excaldūmen)
      • → Spanish: escaldón (Canarian)
  • Borrowings:
    • → Albanian: gardump
    • →? Byzantine Greek: γαρδούμιον (gardoúmion)
      • Greek: γαρδούμι (gardoúmi), γαρδούμια (gardoúmia)
      • →? Mishnaic Hebrew: גִּדּוּמֵי (possibly for גִּרדּוּמֵי)[3]

References
  1. 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)
  2. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*caldūmen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 78
  3. Katsikadeli, Christina (2018 September) “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, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 31
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