The corpus record — Latin

omentum

fatty membrane of caul, covering the intestines

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 11 · 7.01/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De Medicina 18 · 1.76/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. Omentum — de Vaan

Omentum "fatty membrane of caul, covering the intestines' [n. o] (Cat.+) It. cognates: U. umen [acc.sg.], umne [abl.sg.] 'ointment' < *omben < *ongwen-, I see no semantic support for WH's hypothesis that omentum is derived from the verb -ud 'to put on/off. Also, *owe-mento- would phonetically yield *umentumy whence o- could only arise by restoration of *cw-; but there was no word to restore this sequence from. EM … — [de Vaan, s.v. Omentum, p. 442]

2. ōmentum — Lewis & Short

ōmentum, i, n.,

I the fat-skin, adipose membrane; fat, esp. in men (post-Aug.).

I Lit.

A In gen.: ast illi tremat omento popa venter, Pers. 6, 74.—

B In partic.

1 The membrane which encloses the bowels, the caul, Cels. 4, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 80, § 204.—

2 The bowels, Pers. 2, 47: porci, Juv. 13. 116.—

II Transf., any skin which envelops an internal part of the body, a membrane, Macr. S. 7, 9; of the meninges, id. ib. 7, 9.

In the wild

omento Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p41
omentum Celsus, De Medicina 7.14
omento Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 8.397
omentum Celsus, De Medicina 7.21.p1
omentis Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 5.194
omento Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 5.207

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. Omentum (scan p. 442; entry #1200). Root candidates: *ongwen-.

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