colostrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colostrum, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/

Noun

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.

   Synonyms: beestings, first milk, fore-milk, green milk

   • 1988 May 17, Gina Kolata, “For Travelers, Milk From Immunized Cows”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.

   • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 16, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     This valuable fluid—colostrum—plays a number of important biological roles, including helping improve an infant's immune system. Nevertheless, many humans intuitively perceive colostrum as “sour milk,” which should not be given to infants. Other species do not make this serious mistake.

2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Derived terms

• colostric
• colostrous

 

Translations

a form of milk

• Albanian: kulloshtër (sq)
• Arabic: لَبَأ m (labaʔ)
• Armenian: դալ (hy) (dal), խիժ (hy) (xiž), խեժ (hy) (xež)
• Assamese: ফেঁহু (phẽhu)
• Azerbaijani: ağız (az), bulama
• Bashkir: ыуыҙ (ıwıź)
• Basque: oritz
• Belarusian: мало́дзіва n (malódziva)
• Bulgarian: кола́стра (bg) f (kolástra)
• Burmese: နို့ရည်ကြည် (my) (nui.ranykrany)
• Catalan: calostre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初乳 (zh) (chūrǔ)

• Czech: mlezivo n, kolostrum n
• Danish: råmælk
• Dutch: colostrum (nl) n; (in humans) voormelk f; (in dairy animals) biest (nl) f
• Estonian: ternespiim
• Faroese: oskamjólk f, rámjólk f
• Finnish: ternimaito (fi)
• French: colostrum (fr) m
• Friulian: caiostre f
• Galician: costro (gl) m, formigo (gl) m (of cows)
• German: Kolostrum (de) n; (in humans also) Vormilch f, Erstmilch f; (in dairy animals also) Biestmilch f, Biest (de) m
• Greek: πρωτόγαλα (el) n (protógala)

  Ancient: πυριάτη f (puriátē), πυός m (puós)

• Hebrew: קולוסטרום (he)
• Hindi: खीस (hi) (khīs), नवदुग्ध (navdugdh)
• Hungarian: előtej (hu), kolosztrum (hu)
• Icelandic: broddmjólk f, broddur (is) m
• Ingrian: kokkomaito, pihkamaito, juustomaito
• Irish: gruth buí m
• Italian: colostro (it) m
• Japanese: 初乳 (ja) (しょにゅう, shonyū)
• Kazakh: уыз (uyz)
• Kikuyu: gĩthana class 7 (cow's)
• Korean: 초유(初乳) (ko) (choyu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژەک (jek)

  Northern Kurdish: firo (ku), axuz (ku), jek (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ууз (ky) (uuz)
• Latin: colostrum
• Macedonian: сереј m (serej) (bovine), серај m (seraj) (bovine)
• Malayalam: ചീമ്പാൽ (ml) (cīmpāl)
• Marathi: चीक m (cīk)
• Mongolian: уураг (mn) (uurag)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råmelk (no) m or f, råmjølk m or f

  Nynorsk: råmjølk f

• Occitan: colòstrum m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: млѣзиво n (mlězivo)

• Old East Slavic: молозиво n (molozivo)
• Ottoman Turkish: اغوز (ağız), شمه (şeme)
• Persian: آغوز (fa) (âğuz), فرشه (forše), ماک (fa) (mâk), زهک (fa) sg (zehk ~ zahk), پله (fa) sg (palle ~ pale), شیرماک (fa) sg (širmāk)
• Polish: siara (pl) f, młodziwo n, mleziwo n
• Pontic Greek: ταραχτόν (tarachtón)
• Portuguese: colostro (pt) m
• Romanian: coraslă (ro), colastră (ro)
• Russian: моло́зиво (ru) n (molózivo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мле̏зӣво n, мље̏зӣво n

  Roman: mlȅzīvo n, mljȅzīvo (sh) n

• Slovak: mledzivo n
• Slovene: mlezivo n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sera f, serawa f

• Spanish: calostro m
• Swedish: råmjölk (sv)
• Tamil: சீம்பால் (ta) (cīmpāl)
• Tarifit: adxes m
• Tatar: угыз (tt) (uğız)
• Telugu: జున్ను (te) (junnu)
• Turkish: ağız (tr)
• Turkmen: ovuz
• Ukrainian: моло́зиво n (molózyvo)
• Uyghur: ئوغۇز (oghuz)
• Uzbek: ogʻizsut
• Vietnamese: sữa non
• Welsh: llaeth tor m, cynlaeth m
• West Frisian: bjist c

Further reading

• colostrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔs.tʁɔm/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

colostrum m (plural colostrums)

1. colostrum

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.trum/, [kɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.trum/, [koˈlɔst̪rum]

Noun

colostrum n (genitive colostrī); second declension

1. Alternative form of colostra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	colostrum	colostra
genitive	colostrī	colostrōrum
dative	colostrō	colostrīs
accusative	colostrum	colostra
ablative	colostrō	colostrīs
vocative	colostrum	colostra