Noun: abdomen
| Singular | abdomen |
| Plural | abdomens; abdomina |
Sample Sentences
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He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
Nouns inflected like abdomen
postabdomen,
cognomen,
caudoputamen,
prenomen,
praenomen,
chemoregimen,
legumen,
abdomen,
limen,
lumen,
agnomen,
albumen,
velamen,
clinamen,
molimen,
preabdomen,
representamen,
acumen,
germen,
regimen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in 1541 as labdomen. Borrowed from Middle French abdomen as well as from its etymon Latin abdōmen, possibly from abdō (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + -dō (“put, place”). See: Latin Nouns '
abdōmen'.