ruminant

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rūmināns, rūmināntem, from rūminor (“chew the cud”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmɪnənt/

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)
• Catalan: remugant
• Danish: drøvtyggende
• Finnish: märehtivä (fi)
• German: wiederkäuend (de)
• Manx: aachaignagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drøvtyggende

  Nynorsk: jortande, ørtande

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• Portuguese: ruminante (pt)
• Russian: жва́чный (ru) (žváčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-chagnach
• Slovak: prežúvavý m
• Spanish: rumiante (es)

Noun

ruminant (plural ruminants)

1. An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:ruminant

Translations

artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud

• Catalan: remugant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反芻動物／反刍动物 (zh) (fǎnchú dòngwù), 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 dongmur)
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• Latin: ruminans nominative, ruminantis genitive
• 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 (ru) (žvačnoje) живо́тное (ru) n (živótnoje)
• Serbo-Croatian: преживар m (preživar)
• Slovak: prežúvavec (sk) m
• Slovene: prežvekovalec m or f
• Spanish: rumiante (es) m or f
• Swedish: idisslare (sv)

Related terms

• ruminate

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.mi.nɑ̃/

Adjective

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

1. ruminant

Noun

ruminant m (plural ruminants)

1. ruminant

Verb

ruminant

1. present participle of ruminer

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) rūminant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rūminō