Rumina

• Rūmia

Seemingly from rū̆mis (“teat, nipple, breast”) +‎ -īna, i.e. the feminine of Rū̆mīnus. The form seems to have been affected by analogy. As the tree named after the goddess (the Ficus Ruminalis) was associated with Romulus and Remus, the name was supposed in ancient times to be derived from a form like Rōmula (see Rōma). Another potential source of influence would be rūmen (“throat”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ruːˈmiː.na/, [ruːˈmiːnä] or IPA^(key): /ruˈmiː.na/, [rʊˈmiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈmi.na/, [ruˈmiːnä]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.mi.na/, [ˈruːmɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.mi.na/, [ˈruːminä]

Rū̆mī̆na f sg (genitive Rū̆mī̆nae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Rumina (goddess of nursing mothers)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• rū̆mī̆nalis

• “Rumina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Rumina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.