putamen

Borrowed from Latin putāmen (“husk, shell”).

putamen (plural putamens or putamina)

1. (botany) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit; endocarp. [from 18th c.]
2. (neuroanatomy) A round structure located at the base of the forebrain, regulating movement and learning. [from 19th c.]
   • 2009 February 6, Fiona McNab et al., “Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training”, in Science‎^[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 800–802:

     For calculation of D2 BP, bilateral caudate and putamen ROIs were defined anatomically.

   • 2019, Albert Costa, translated by John W. Schwieter, The Bilingual Brain, Penguin, published 2021, page 92:

     [M]ultilingual speakers have a greater density of grey matter in the area involved in articulation and phonological processes, namely the left putamen.

• putamenal
• putaminal

• pneumat-

From putō (“clean; prune, crop”) + -men.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊˈtaː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [puˈtaː.men]

putāmen n (genitive putāminis); third declension

1. cutting, clipping (that which is cut away)
2. shell, peel (removed from eggs, vegetables etc.)

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “putamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “putamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “putamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.