albumen

English

Etymology

From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).

Noun

albumen (countable and uncountable; plural albumens or albumina)

1. The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

Synonyms

• egg white

Translations

white part of an egg

• Belarusian: бялок (be) (bjalók) m 
• Bulgarian: белтък (bg) (beltǎk) m 
• Catalan: albumen (ca) m, clara (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛋白 (cmn) (dànbái)

• Czech: bílek (cs) m
• Dutch: eiwit (nl) n
• Esperanto: albumeno (eo)
• Finnish: valkuainen (fi), munanvalkuainen (fi)
• French: glaire (fr)
• German: Eiweiß (de)
• Greek: λεύκωμα (el) (léfkoma) n , ασπράδι (el) (asprádi) n 
• Hungarian: tojásfehérje (hu)
• Icelandic: eggjahvíta f, hvíta í eggi f
• Italian: albume m, chiara d'uovo f
• Japanese: 卵白 (ja) (らんぱく, ranpaku)
• Jèrriais: blianc d'oeu m
• Korean: 횐자위 (ko) (hoenjawi)
• Kurdish: spîk (ku) f, spîçk (ku) f
• Latin: albūmen (la) n, albāmentum (la) n
• Macedonian: белка (mk) (bélka) f
• Malay: albumen (ms), putih telur (ms)
• Maltese: l-abjad tal-bajd

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eggehvite (nb) m and f, eggekvite (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: eggekvite (nn) f

• Polish: białko (pl) n
• Portuguese: clara (pt) f
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alv d'ov (rm) f, (Puter) alv d'öv (rm) f, (Vallader) alb d'öv (rm) f, (Sursilvan) clar d'iev (rm) f, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) cler d'ov (rm) f, (Puter, Vallader) cler d'öv (rm) f
• Russian: белок (ru) (belók) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: gealagan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: беланце (sh) n, бјеланце (sh) n, белањак (sh) m, бјелањак (sh) m, беланац (sh) m, бјеланац (sh) m

  Roman: belance (sh) n, bjelance (sh) n, belanjak (sh) m, bjelanjak (sh) m, belanac (sh) m, bjelanac (sh) m

• Slovene: beljak (sl) m
• Spanish: albumen (es) f, clara (es) f
• Swedish: äggvita (sv) c, vita (sv) c
• Turkish: yumurta akı (tr)
• Ukrainian: білок (uk) (bilók) m 
• Venetian: ciàra f
• Vietnamese: lòng trắng (vi)

See also

• yolk

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Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /alˈbuː.men/

Noun

albūmen (genitive albūminis); n, third declension

1. albumen; the white of an egg

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	albūmen	albūmina
genitive	albūminis	albūminum
dative	albūminī	albūminibus
accusative	albūmen	albūmina
ablative	albūmine	albūminibus
vocative	albūmen	albūmina

Synonyms

• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albor, album

Related terms

albāmentum albārium albārius albātus albēdō

albeō albēscō albicēris albicō

albidus albitūdō albor albūgō

albulus album alburnum albus

Descendants

• English: albumen
• Russian: альбуми́н (al'bumín) m
• Spanish: albumen, albúmina

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Swedish

Noun

albumen

1. definite plural of album