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- Latin · derived fromrūmināns, rūminantem
- English todayruminant
From Latin rūmināns, rūminantem, present participle of rūminārī (“to chew the cud, ruminate”), from rūmen (“throat, gullet, rumen (first stomach of a ruminant)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.