different between stomach vs reticulum

English

Alternative forms

• stomack (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (stómakhos), from ????? (stóma, “mouth”).

Displaced native Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach”); largely displaced Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e (“stomach, maw”) from Old English maga (“stomach, maw”). More at bucket and maw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?m?k/

Noun

stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)

1. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
2. (informal) The belly.

   Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, (obsolete) bouk, gut, guts, (archaic) maw

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].

   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:

     He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;

   • This sort of crying […] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

4. (obsolete) Appetite.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:

     You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,^[1]

     HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?

     EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.

   • , II.ii.1.2:

     If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.

5. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).

Derived terms

Related terms

• stomachic
• stomachal

Translations

Verb

stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)

1. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?

3. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:

     O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

Synonyms

• (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to be angry):
• (to resent): See also Thesaurus:dislike

Derived terms

• stomachable
• unstomachable

Translations

Anagrams

• Satchmo

Middle English

Noun

stomach

1. Alternative form of stomak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?ticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle.

Noun

reticulum (plural reticula or reticulums)

1. A network. The endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell.
2. A pattern of interconnected objects.
3. (zoology) The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.

Related terms

• reticle
• reticulate
• reticulated
• reticulation

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• r?ti?culum
• r?ticulus

Etymology

From r?te (“net, snare”) +? -culum (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re??ti.ku.lum/, [re??t??k??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re?ti.ku.lum/, [r??t?i?kulum]

Noun

r?ticulum n (genitive r?ticul?); second declension

1. a net
2. a fishnet
3. a hairnet
4. a network
5. a colander
6. an omentum
7. (later Latin): a reticle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• r?ticul?tus

Descendants

• English: reticle
• Italian: reticolo
• Portuguese: retículo, retícula

References

• reticulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• reticulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reticulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette