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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lumen (“light, an opening”). Use as a unit was first adopted by French physicist André Blondel in 1894.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?lu?m?n/
• (General American) enPR: lo?o?m?n, IPA^(key): /?lum?n/
• Rhymes: -u?m?n
• Hyphenation: lu?men

Noun

lumen (plural lumens or lumina)

1. (physics) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.
2. (anatomy) The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.
3. (botany) The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.
4. (medicine) The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.

Derived terms

• lumenal
• lumenless
• lumen second

Related terms

• candela
• luminal
• lux

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lum?n]
• Hyphenation: lu?men

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lumen.

Noun

lumen m inan

1. lumen (unit of luminous flux)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

lumen m anim

1. capable talented person

Declension

Further reading

• lumen in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lumen in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lumen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu(?)men/, [?lu(?)me?n]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: lu?men

Noun

lumen

1. (physics, anatomy, botany, medicine) lumen

Declension

Alternative forms

• luumen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lumen/, [?lume?n]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: lu?men

Noun

lumen

1. genitive singular of lumi

Anagrams

• lemun, melun

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lumen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly.m?n/

Noun

lumen m (plural lumens)

1. (physics) lumen (SI unit of measurement)
2. (anatomy) lumen
3. (botany) lumen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *léwksmn?, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”).
Equivalent to l?x +? -men.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lu?.men/, [???u?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lu.men/, [?lu?m?n]

Noun

l?men n (genitive l?minis); third declension

1. light, source of light
2. (poetic) the eyes
3. (poetic) daylight
4. (poetic) brightness
5. (poetic) the light of life
6. An opening through which light can penetrate such as an air-hole or a window.
7. The opening or orifice in a water-pipe or funnel
8. (figuratively) a luminary, star, light (a most distinguished person)

Declension

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

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• lumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lumen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lumen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lumen.

Noun

lumen m inan

1. lumen (SI-unit)
2. (archaic) display, explanation

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lumen, French lumen. Doublet of the inherited lume.

Noun

lumen m (plural lumeni)

1. (physics) lumen (SI unit of measurement)

Noun

lumen n (plural lumene)

1. (anatomy) lumen

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lumen. Doublet of the inherited lumbre.

Noun

lumen m (plural lúmenes)

1. lumen

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lumen.

Noun

lumen

1. lumen (singular and plural)

Anagrams

• mulen, mulne

English

Etymology

From Latin n?men.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nju?.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?nu?.m?n/

Noun

numen (plural numina)

1. A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
   • 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:

     The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
2. An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant.

See also

• numinous
• numinal

Latin

Alternative forms

• noumen

Etymology

• Could be simply an action noun of *nu?, for *nuimen, from *nu? + -men, thus meaning "a nodding with the head", "a nod", "command", "will" (as n?tus), with the particular meaning of "the divine will", "the will or power of the gods", "divine sway".
• Others suggest the Ancient Greek word ????????? (nooúmenon) ("an influence perceptible by mind but not by senses"), from ???? (noé?), was borrowed into Early Latin as the word noumen, whose spelling changed to numen in Classical Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu?.men/, [?nu?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.men/, [?nu?m?n]

Noun

n?men n (genitive n?minis); third declension

1. a nod of the head
2. divine sway or will
3. divine power or right
4. divinity
5. (by extension) fairy

Declension

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

Descendants

• ? English: numen, numinous
• ? Italian: nume
• ? Portuguese: nume, númen
• ? Spanish: numen

References

• numen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• numen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• numen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?numen/

Verb

numen

1. past participle of niman

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin numen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?numen/, [?nu.m?n]

Noun

numen m (plural númenes)

1. numen
2. muse (source of inspiration)

   Synonyms: inspiración, musa

Further reading

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