listavac

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lȉstav (“related to leaves or flakes”, adjective) +‎ -ac. With the same thought also German Blättermagen from Blätter (“leaves”) +‎ Magen (“maw”), French feuillet or other languages where the omasum is called “book”, “bible”, “psalterium”, see the translations for omasum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lîstaʋat͡s/

Noun

lȉstavac m (Cyrillic spelling ли̏ставац)

1. omasum, psalterium, the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant

Declension

Declension of listavac

	singular	plural
nominative	lȉstavac	lȉstāvci
genitive	lȉstāvca	lȉstavācā
dative	lȉstāvcu	lȉstāvcima
accusative	lȉstavac	lȉstāvce
vocative	lȉstāvcu	lȉstāvci
locative	lȉstāvcu	lȉstāvcima
instrumental	lȉstāvcem	lȉstāvcima

Coordinate terms

• bùrāg m (“rumen, paunch”)
• kàpura f (“reticulum, bonnet”)
• sȉrīšte n (“abomasum, maw”)

References

• “listavac”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 3, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1969, published 1990, page 214