legumen

English

Etymology

Latin legūmen

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly connected to legere (“to gather”) because they can be scooped up in the hand. The second element is the common noun-forming suffix -men.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leˈɡuː.men/, [ɫ̪ɛˈɡuːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate 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

• Catalan: llegum
• → French: légume
  • → English: legume
• Friulian: liùm
• Galician: legume
• Italian: legume
• Occitan: legum

• Old French: legun, leun
• Portuguese: legume
• Romanian: legumă
• Sicilian: lijumi
• Spanish: legumbre
• Venetian: legùmo

References

• “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.