albumen

From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbjʊmən/, /ælˈbjuːmən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈalbjʊmɪn/
• Rhymes: -uːmən
• Hyphenation: al‧bu‧men

albumen (countable and uncountable, plural albumens or albumina)

1. The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

   Synonym: egg white

   Coordinate term: yolk

• albumin

• “albumen” (US) / “albumen” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

From albus (“white”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈbuː.men/, [aɫˈbuː.mɛn]

albūmen n (genitive albūminis); third declension

1. albumen; the white of an egg

Third declension neuter.

• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albor, album

• English: albumen
• Russian: альбуми́н m (alʹbumín)
• Spanish: albumen, albúmina
• Italian: albume

• albumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Latin albūmen.

• IPA^(key): /alˈbumen/, [alˈβumẽn]

albumen m (plural albúmenes)

1. egg white, albumen

   Synonym: clara

• albúmina

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

albumen

1. definite plural of album