different between ostium vs foramen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?stium.

Noun

ostium (plural ostia)

1. A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
2. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
3. The mouth of a river.

Anagrams

• timous

Latin

Etymology

Cognate with ?s (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?s.ti.um/, [?o?s?t?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?os.ti.um/, [??st?ium]

Noun

?stium n (genitive ?sti? or ?st?); second declension

1. door
2. entrance
3. estuary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (door): i?nua

Derived terms

• ?sti?tim

Related terms

• ?sti?rius
• ?stiolum

Descendants

References

• ostium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ostium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ostium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• ostium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin for?men (“aperture or opening produced by boring”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???e?.m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???e?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n

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

Derived terms

• foraminal
• foraminate
• foraminous

References

• “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “foramen”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• meatus

Anagrams

• Foreman, foreman, name for

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fo?ra?.men/, [f???ä?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fo?ra.men/, [f?????m?n]

Noun

for?men n (genitive for?minis); 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

• for?men ac?s
• for?min?tus
• for?min?sus

Related terms

• for?tus
• for?

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, 1883–1887)
• foramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin for?men (“aperture, opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo??amen/, [fo??a.m?n]

Noun

foramen m (plural forámenes)

1. (anatomy) foramen

Derived terms

Related terms

• foraminífero
• perforar
• horadar