foramen

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
• Rhymes: -eɪmən

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

   The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     There is — as I have explained — a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.

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

• Foreman, foreman, name for

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɔˈraː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [foˈraː.men]

forāmen n (genitive forāminis); third declension

1. (Classical Latin, rare) an opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole
   • Biblia Sacra Ex Sebastiani Castellionis Interpretatione, Matthaeus XIX:24:

     "... iterum hoc vōbīs dīcō, facilius esse rūdentem per forāmen acūs trājicī, quam dīvitem in Deī rēgnum intrāre"

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2. (transferred sense, Late Latin) an opening, hole, cave

   Synonym: caverna

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

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

• forātus
• forō

• “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.

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

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

foramen m (plural forámenes)

1. (anatomy) foramen

• “foramen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024