colostrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colostrum.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/

Noun

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

(medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Synonyms

beastings
beest
beestings
beistings
beistyn
biestings
bisnings
first milk
fore-milk
green milk

Translations

a form of milk

Albanian: kulloshtër (sq)
Arabic: لَبَأ‎‎ m (labaʾ)
Armenian: դալ (hy) (dal), խիժ (hy) (xiž), խեժ (hy) (xež)
Azerbaijani: ağız (az), bulama
Basque: oritz
Belarusian: мало́дзіва n (malódziva)
Bulgarian: кола́стра (bg) f (kolástra)
Burmese: နို့ရည်ကြည် (my) (nui.ranykrany)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 初乳 (zh) (chūrǔ)
Czech: mlezivo n, kolostrum n
Danish: råmælk
Dutch: biest (nl)
Faroese: oskamjólk f, rámjólk f
Finnish: ternimaito (fi)
French: colostrum (fr) m
Friulian: caiostre f
Galician: costro (gl) m
German: Kolostrum (de) n, Vormilch f, Biest (de) m, Biestmilch f
Greek: πρωτόγαλα (el) n (protógala)
Hebrew: קולוסטרום‎‎ (he)
Hungarian: előtej, kolosztrum
Icelandic: broddmjólk f, broddur (is) m
Italian: colostro m
Japanese: 初乳 (しょにゅう, shonyū)
Kazakh: уыз (wız)

Korean: 초유 (ko) (choyu) (初乳)
Kyrgyz: ооз (ky) (ooz)
Latin: colostrum
Norwegian:
Bokmål: råmelk (no) m, f, råmjølk m, f

Nynorsk: råmjølk f
Occitan: colòstrum m
Persian: آغوز‎‎ (fa) (âğuz), فرشه‎‎ (forše), ماک‎‎ (fa) (mâk)
Polish: siara (pl) f, młodziwo n, mleziwo n
Portuguese: colostro (pt) m
Romanian: coraslă (ro), colastră (ro)
Russian: моло́зиво (ru) n (molózivo)
Slovak: mlezivo n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: sera f, serawa f
Spanish: calostro m
Swedish: råmjölk (sv)
Tatar: авыз (tt) (awız)
Turkish: ağız (tr)
Turkmen: agyz (tk)
Ukrainian: моло́зиво n (molózyvo)
Vietnamese: sữa non
West Frisian: bjist c
Westrobothnian: råmjólk f

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.trum/, [kɔˈɫɔs.trũ]

Noun

colostrum n (genitive colostrī); second declension

Alternative form of colostra

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	colostrum	colostra
genitive	colostrī	colostrōrum
dative	colostrō	colostrīs
accusative	colostrum	colostra
ablative	colostrō	colostrīs
vocative	colostrum	colostra

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