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foramen

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) +‎ -men (nominal suffix).

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foramen (plural foramina or foramens)

  1. (anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
    Hyponyms: alar foramen, foramen cecum, foramen magnum, foramen of Magendie, foramen of Monro, foramen of Morgagni, foramen of Winslow, foramen ovale, foramen triosseum, neuroforamen, parietal foramen, sphenopalatine foramen
    The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      That is better! There is - as I have explained - a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From forō (“to pierce or bore”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

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forāmen n (genitive forāminis); third declension

  1. (Classical Latin, rare) an opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole
  2. (transferred sense, Late Latin) an opening, hole, cave
    Synonym: caverna
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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative forāmen forāmina
Genitive forāminis forāminum
Dative forāminī forāminibus
Accusative forāmen forāmina
Ablative forāmine forāminibus
Vocative forāmen forāmina

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Descendants of foramen

→ Romanian: foramen

References

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  • “foramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “foramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • foramen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • foramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”).

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  • IPA(key): /foˈɾamen/ [foˈɾa.mẽn]
  • Rhymes: -amen
  • Syllabification: fo‧ra‧men

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foramen m (plural forámenes)

  1. (anatomy) foramen

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