reticulum

See also: Reticulum and réticulum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle.

Noun

reticulum (plural reticula or reticulums)

1. A network. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A pattern of interconnected objects.
3. (zoology) The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.

Related terms

• reticle
• reticulate
• reticulated
• reticulation

Translations

the second stomach of a ruminant

• Albanian: porrc (sq) m, kësulë (sq) f
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: قَلَنْسُوَة f (qalansuwa)
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• Belarusian: се́тка f (sjétka)
• Bulgarian: мрежа (bg) f (mreža)
• Catalan: reticle m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜂巢胃 (zh) (fēngcháowèi), 金錢肚／金钱肚 (jīnqiándǔ)

• Czech: čepec m
• Danish: netmave (da) c
• Dutch: netmaag m
• Esperanto: centipelio
• Faroese: keppur m
• Finnish: verkkomaha (fi)
• French: réticulum (fr) m, réseau (fr) m, bonnet (fr) m
• Galician: retículo (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Netzmagen (de) m, Reticulum
• Greek: δίκτυο (el) n (díktyo)

  Ancient: κεκρύφαλος m (kekrúphalos)

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• Hungarian: recésgyomor
• Ido: retikulo (io)
• Indonesian: retikulum
• Interlingua: reticulo
• Italian: reticolo (it) m
• Japanese: ハチノス (hachinosu)
• Kannada: ರೆಟಿಕ್ಯುಲಮ್ (reṭikyulam)
• Kazakh: жұмыршақ (jūmyrşaq)
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• Latvian: aceknis m
• Limburgish: nètmaag
• Lithuanian: tinklainis m
• Lule Sami: tjalmas
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• Malagasy: masontantely (mg)
• Malay: retikulum
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• Northern Sami: čalmmas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nettmage

• Polish: czepiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: retículo m, barrete (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: се́тка (ru) f (sétka), рети́кулум m (retíkulum)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀пура m

  Latin: kàpura (sh) m

• Slovak: sieťka f
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• Spanish: redecilla (es) f, retículo (es) m
• Swedish: nätmage
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• Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)
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• Vietnamese: dạ tổ ong
• Welsh: rhwyden f

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Latin

Alternative forms

• rētiāculum
• rēticulus

Etymology

From rēte (“net, snare”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reːˈti.ku.lum/, [reːˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈti.ku.lum/, [reˈt̪iːkulum]

Noun

rēticulum n (genitive rēticulī); second declension

1. a net
2. a fishnet
3. a hairnet
4. a network
5. a colander
6. an omentum
7. (later Latin): a reticle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rēticulum	rēticula
Genitive	rēticulī	rēticulōrum
Dative	rēticulō	rēticulīs
Accusative	rēticulum	rēticula
Ablative	rēticulō	rēticulīs
Vocative	rēticulum	rēticula

Derived terms

• rēticulātus

Descendants

• English: reticle
• Italian: reticolo
• Portuguese: retículo, retícula

References

• “reticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reticulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.