albumen

From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbjʊmən/, /ælˈbjuːmən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈalbjʊmɪn/

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• Rhymes: -uːmən
• Hyphenation: al‧bu‧men

albumen (countable and uncountable, plural albumens or albumina)

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

   Synonyms: egg white, glair

   Coordinate term: yolk

   • 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎^[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:

     The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.

• albumin

• “albumen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /alˈbuː.men/, [äɫ̪ˈbuːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈbu.men/, [älˈbuːmen]

albūmen n (genitive albūminis); third declension

1. albumen; the white of an egg

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

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

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

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

Borrowed from French albumen.

albumen n (uncountable)

1. albumen

Borrowed from Latin albūmen.

• IPA^(key): /alˈbumen/ [alˈβ̞u.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: al‧bu‧men

albumen m (plural albúmenes)

1. egg white, albumen

   Synonym: clara

• “albumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

albumen

1. definite plural of album