reticulum

Borrowed from Latin rēticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle.

reticulum (plural reticula or reticulums)

1. (biology) A network. For example, 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.

   Synonyms: honeycomb, honeycomb stomach

   Coordinate terms: abomasum, omasum, rumen

   • 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:

     As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.

4. (cooking) The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).

   Synonym: honeycomb tripe

• rough endoplasmic reticulum
• sarcoplasmic reticulum
• smooth endoplasmic reticulum

• rētiāculum
• rēticulus

From rēte (“net, snare”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reːˈti.ku.lum/, [reːˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈti.ku.lum/, [reˈt̪iːkulum]

rēticulum n (genitive rēticulī); 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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• rēticulātus

• English: reticle
• French: réticule
• Italian: reticolo
• Portuguese: retículo, retícula
• Romanian: reticul
• Spanish: retículo

• “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.