ruminant

English

Etymology

From Latin rūmināns, rūminantem, present participle of rūminārī (“to chew the cud, ruminate”), from rūmen (“throat, gullet, rumen(first stomach of a ruminant)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmɪnənt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

ruminant (comparative more ruminant, superlative most ruminant)

1. Chewing cud.
2. Pondering; ruminative.
   • G. K. Chesterton

     “I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.

Translations

chewing cud

• Armenian: որոճող (hy) (oročoġ)
• Asturian: rumiante (ast)
• Bulgarian: преживен (preživen)
• Burmese: စမြုံ့ပြန်သော (ca.mrum.pransau:)
• Catalan: remugant (ca)
• Danish: drøvtyggende
• Finnish: märehtivä (fi)
• German: wiederkäuend (de)
• Manx: aachaignagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drøvtyggende

  Nynorsk: jortande, ørtande

• Portuguese: ruminante (pt)
• Russian: жва́чный (ru) (žváčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-chagnach
• Slovak: prežúvavý m
• Spanish: rumiante (es)
• Turkish: geviş getiren (tr)
• Ukrainian: жуйний m (žujnyj), ремигаючий m (remyhajučyj)
• Welsh: cilgnöol

pondering, ruminative

• Ukrainian: задумливий m (zadumlyvyj)

Noun

ruminant (plural ruminants)

1. An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 5:

     Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected
     From enemies that whisper to the blood;
     The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected;
     The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:ruminant

Translations

artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud

• Asturian: rumiante (ast) m
• Breton: daskirier (br) m
• Bulgarian: преживно животно n (preživno životno)
• Catalan: remugant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反芻動物／反刍动物 (zh) (fǎnchú dòngwù)

• Czech: přežvýkavec (cs) m
• Danish: drøvtygger (da) c
• Dutch: herkauwer (nl)
• Esperanto: remaĉulo
• Estonian: mäletseja
• Faroese: jóturdýr n
• Finnish: märehtijä (fi)
• French: ruminant (fr) m, ruminante (fr) f
• German: Wiederkäuer (de) m
• Greek: μηρυκαστικό (el) n (mirykastikó)
• Hungarian: kérődző (hu)
• Icelandic: jórturdýr n
• Italian: ruminante (it)
• Japanese: 反芻動物 (hansū dōbutsu)
• Korean: 반추 동물 (banchu dongmul)
• Latin: rūmināns
• Macedonian: преживар m (preživar)
• Malay: ruminan
• Manx: aachaignagh m, caignagh keerey m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drøvtygger (no) m

  Nynorsk: jortar m, drøvtyggar m, drøvtyggjar m

• Polish: przeżuwacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: ruminante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: rumegătoare (ro) f
• Russian: жвачное живо́тное (žvačnoje živótnoje)
• Serbo-Croatian: преживар m, preživar m
• Slovak: prežúvavec (sk) m
• Slovene: prežvekovalec m or f
• Spanish: rumiante (es) m or f
• Swedish: idisslare (sv)
• Thai: สัตว์เคี้ยวเอื้อง (sàt-kíao-ʉ̂ʉang)
• Turkish: geviş getiren (tr)
• Ukrainian: жуйна тварина f (žujna tvaryna)
• Welsh: cilfil m, cilfilyn m, cilgnöwr m

Related terms

• ruminate

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.mi.nɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

ruminant (feminine ruminante, masculine plural ruminants, feminine plural ruminantes)

1. ruminant

Noun

ruminant m (plural ruminants)

1. ruminant

Participle

ruminant

1. present participle of ruminer

Further reading

• “ruminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

rūminant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rūminō