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7-letter words (2 found)

FORAMEN,FOREMAN,

6-letter words (8 found)

ENAMOR,ENFORM,FEMORA,FOAMER,FOEMAN,FORANE,MOANER,MONERA,

5-letter words (18 found)

AFORE,ENARM,ENORM,FORAM,FORME,FRAME,FRENA,FREON,MANOR,MARON,MONER,MORAE,MORNE,NAMER,NORMA,RAMEN,REMAN,ROMAN,

4-letter words (53 found)

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3-letter words (53 found)

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2-letter words (23 found)

AE,AM,AN,AR,EA,EF,EM,EN,ER,FA,FE,MA,ME,MO,NA,NE,NO,OE,OF,OM,ON,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of foramen

foramen

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪmən

Noun

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • meatus

References

  • “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “foramen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Foreman, foreman, name for

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /foˈraː.men/, [fɔˈräːmɛn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /foˈra.men/, [foˈräːmen]

Noun

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

Inflection

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

Derived terms

  • forāmen acūs
  • forāminātus (adjective)
  • forāminōsus (adjective)

Related terms

  • forātus
  • forō

Descendants

References

  • “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.

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

foramen m (plural forámenes)

  1. (anatomy) foramen

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • “foramen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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