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Webster 1913 Edition

Albumen

Al-bu′men

Noun.

[L., fr.

albus

white.]

The white of an egg.

(Bot.)

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

(Chem.)

Same as

Albumin

Webster 1828 Edition

Albumen

ALBU'MEN

Noun.

[L. from albus, white.]

The white of an egg. A like substance is a chief constituent in all animal solids.

Definition 2024

albumen

See also: albúmen

English

Noun

albumen ‎(countable and uncountable, plural albumens or albumina)

The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

Synonyms

egg white

Translations

white part of an egg

Armenian: սպիտակուց (hy) ‎(spitakucʿ)
Belarusian: бяло́к m ‎(bjalók)
Bulgarian: белтък (bg) m ‎(beltǎk)
Catalan: albumen (ca) m, clara (ca) f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 蛋白 ‎(daan⁶⁻² baak⁶)

Mandarin: 蛋白 (zh) ‎(dànbái)
Czech: bílek (cs) m
Danish: hvide c, æggehvide (da) c
Dutch: eiwit (nl) n
Esperanto: albumeno
Faroese: hvíti m, eggjahvíti m
Finnish: valkuainen (fi), munanvalkuainen (fi)
French: glaire (fr), blanc d’œuf (fr) m, blanc (fr)
German: Eiweiß (de) n
Greek: λεύκωμα (el) n ‎(léfkoma), ασπράδι (el) n ‎(asprádi)
Hebrew: חֶלְבּוֹן (he) m ‎(ḥelbón)
Hungarian: tojásfehérje (hu)
Icelandic: eggjahvíta (is) f, hvíta í eggi f
Ido: albumeno (io)
Irish: gealacán m, gealacán uibhe m
Italian: albume (it) m, chiara (it) f, bianco d'uovo m
Japanese: 卵白 (ja) ‎(らんぱく, ranpaku)
Korean: 횐자위 ‎(hoenjawi)
Kurdish: spîk (ku) f, spîçk (ku) f
Latin: albūmen, albāmentum

Macedonian: белка f ‎(belka)
Malay: albumen, putih telur
Maltese: l-abjad tal-bajd
Mongolian: уураг (mn) ‎(uurag)
Norman: blianc d'oeu m (Jersey)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: eggehvite m, eggekvite m

Nynorsk: eggekvite f
Polish: białko (pl) n
Portuguese: clara (pt) f
Romanian: albuș (ro) n
Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alv d'ov f, (Puter) alv d'öv f, (Vallader) alb d'öv f, (Sursilvan) clar d'iev f, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) cler d'ov f, (Puter, Vallader) cler d'öv f
Russian: бело́к (ru) m ‎(belók)
Scottish Gaelic: gealagan m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: беланце n, бјеланце n, белањак m, бјелањак m, беланац m, бјеланац m

Roman: belance (sh) n, bjelance (sh) n, belanjak (sh) m, bjelanjak (sh) m, belanac m, bjelanac m
Slovak: bielok m
Slovene: beljak (sl) m
Spanish: albumen (es) f, clara (es) f
Swedish: äggvita (sv) c, vita (sv) c
Thai: ไข่ขาว (th) ‎(khaì khaǎo)
Turkish: yumurta akı (tr)
Ukrainian: біло́к (uk) m ‎(bilók)
Venetian: ciàra f
Vietnamese: lòng trắng

Latin

Etymology

From albus ‎(“white”) +‎ -men ‎(noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈbuː.men/

Noun

albūmen n ‎(genitive albūminis); third declension

albumen; the white of an egg

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	albūmen	albūmina
genitive	albūminis	albūminum
dative	albūminī	albūminibus
accusative	albūmen	albūmina
ablative	albūmine	albūminibus
vocative	albūmen	albūmina

Synonyms

(albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albor, album

Related terms

Descendants

English: albumen
Russian: альбуми́н m ‎(alʹbumín)
Spanish: albumen, albúmina

References

albumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “albumen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

albumen m ‎(plural albúmenes)

egg white, albumen

Synonyms

clara

Swedish

Noun

albumen

definite plural of album

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Webster 1913 Edition

Albumen

Al-bu′men

Webster 1828 Edition

Albumen

ALBU'MEN

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albumen

albumen

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