reticulum

See also: Reticulum and réticulum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle, reticule, and Reticulum.

Noun

reticulum (plural reticula or reticulums)

2. (biology) A network. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell.
4. A pattern of interconnected objects.
6. (zoology) The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.

   Synonyms: honeycomb, honeycomb stomach

   Coordinate terms: abomasum, omasum, rumen

   • 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:

     As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.

8. (cooking) The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).

   Synonym: honeycomb tripe

Derived terms

• rough endoplasmic reticulum
• sarcoplasmic reticulum
• smooth endoplasmic reticulum

Related terms

• reticle
• reticulate
• reticulated
• reticulation

 

Translations

cytology: cell network

• German: Retikulum (de) n
• Hungarian: retikulum, sejthálózat, hálózat (hu)
• Romanian: reticul (ro) n
• Russian: рети́кулум (ru) m (retíkulum)

zoology: second stomach of a ruminant

• Albanian: aliver (sq) m, nanuq (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)
• Breton: boned (br) m
• Bulgarian: втори стомах m (vtori stomah)
• 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 (nl) 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, Retikulum (de) n
• Greek: δίκτυο (el) n (díktyo)

  Ancient: κεκρύφαλος m (kekrúphalos)

• Hebrew: בית הכוסות m (bet hakosót)
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• Hungarian: recésgyomor (hu)
• Ido: retikulo (io)
• Indonesian: retikulum
• Ingrian: kunikaanhattu
• Interlingua: reticulo
• Italian: reticolo (it) m
• Japanese: ハチノス (hachinosu)
• Kannada: ರೆಟಿಕ್ಯುಲಮ್ (reṭikyulam)
• Kazakh: жұмыршақ (jūmyrşaq)
• Korean: 벌집위 (beoljibwi)
• 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

• Ottoman Turkish: شیردن (şirden)
• Polish: czepiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: retículo m, barrete (pt) m
• Romanian: ciur (ro) n, rețea (ro) f, reticulum n
• Russian: се́тка (ru) f (sétka), рети́кулум (ru) m (retíkulum)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀пура m

  Latin: kàpura (sh) m

• Slovak: sieťka f
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: redecilla (es) f, retículo (es) m
• Swedish: nätmage
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• Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)
• Tigre: please add this translation if you can
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• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: dạ tổ ong
• Welsh: rhwyden f, poten rwydog f, ail stumog f

honeycomb tripe (food)

• Bulgarian: шкембе (bg) n (škembe)
• Korean: 벌집양 (beoljibyang)

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).

	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
• French: réticule
• Italian: reticolo
• Portuguese: retículo, retícula
• Romanian: reticul
• Spanish: retículo

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.