colostrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colostrum, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɑstɹəm/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɔstɹəm/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/, [kəˈlɔ̟stɹəm]

Noun

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth.

   Synonyms: beestings, first milk, fore-milk, green milk

   • 1988 May 17, Gina Kolata, “For Travelers, Milk From Immunized Cows”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.

   • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 16, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     This valuable fluid—colostrum—plays a number of important biological roles, including helping improve an infant's immune system. Nevertheless, many humans intuitively perceive colostrum as “sour milk,” which should not be given to infants. Other species do not make this serious mistake.

2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

Derived terms

• colostric
• colostrous

Translations

a form of milk

Albanian: kulloshtër (sq) Arabic: لَبَأ m (labaʔ) Armenian: դալ (hy) (dal), խիժ (hy) (xiž), խեժ (hy) (xež) Assamese: ফেঁহু (phẽhu) Azerbaijani: ağız (az), bulama Bashkir: ыуыҙ (ıwıź) Basque: oritz Belarusian: мало́дзіва n (malódziva) Bulgarian: кола́стра (bg) f (kolástra) Burmese: နို့ရည်ကြည် (my) (nui.ranykrany) Catalan: calostre (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 初乳 (zh) (chūrǔ) Czech: mlezivo n, kolostrum n Danish: råmælk Dutch: colostrum (nl) n; (in humans) voormelk f; (in dairy animals) biest (nl) f Estonian: ternespiim Faroese: oskamjólk f, rámjólk f Finnish: ternimaito (fi) French: colostrum (fr) m Friulian: caiostre f Galician: costro (gl) m, formigo (gl) m (of cows) German: Kolostrum (de) n; (in humans also) Vormilch f, Erstmilch f; (in dairy animals also) Biestmilch f, Biest (de) m Greek: πρωτόγαλα (el) n (protógala) Ancient: πυριάτη f (puriátē), πυός m (puós) Hebrew: קולוסטרום (he) Hindi: खीस (hi) (khīs), नवदुग्ध (navdugdh) Hungarian: előtej (hu), kolosztrum (hu) Icelandic: broddmjólk f, broddur (is) m Ingrian: kokkomaito, pihkamaito, juustomaito Irish: gruth buí m Italian: colostro (it) m Japanese: 初乳 (ja) (しょにゅう, shonyū) Kazakh: уыз (uyz) Kikuyu: gĩthana class 7 (cow's) Korean: 초유(初乳) (ko) (choyu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ژەک (jek) Northern Kurdish: firo (ku), axuz (ku), jek (ku) Kyrgyz: ууз (ky) (uuz) Latin: colostrum Macedonian: сереј m (serej) (bovine), серај m (seraj) (bovine) Malayalam: ചീമ്പാൽ (ml) (cīmpāl) Maltese: liba f Marathi: चीक m (cīk) Mongolian: уураг (mn) (uurag) Norwegian: Bokmål: råmelk (no) m or f, råmjølk m or f Nynorsk: råmjølk f Occitan: colòstrum m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: млѣзиво n (mlězivo) Old East Slavic: молозиво n (molozivo) Ottoman Turkish: اغوز (ağız), شمه (şeme) Persian: آغوز (fa) (âġuz), فرشه (forše), ماک (fa) (mâk), زهک (fa) sg (zehk ~ zahk), پله (fa) sg (palle ~ pale), شیرماک (fa) sg (širmāk) Polish: siara (pl) f, młodziwo (pl) n, mleziwo n Pontic Greek: ταραχτόν (tarachtón) Portuguese: colostro (pt) m Romanian: coraslă (ro), colastră (ro) Russian: моло́зиво (ru) n (molózivo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мле̏зӣво n, мље̏зӣво n Roman: mlȅzīvo n, mljȅzīvo (sh) n Slovak: mledzivo n Slovene: mlezivo n Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: sera f, serawa f Southern Altai: уус сӱт (uus süt) Spanish: calostro (es) m Swedish: råmjölk (sv) Tamil: சீம்பால் (ta) (cīmpāl) Tarifit: adxes m Tatar: угыз (tt) (uğız) Telugu: జున్ను (te) (junnu) Turkish: ağız (tr) Turkmen: ovuz Ukrainian: моло́зиво n (molózyvo) Uyghur: ئوغۇز (oghuz) Uzbek: ogʻizsut Vietnamese: sữa non Welsh: llaeth tor m, cynlaeth m West Frisian: bjist c

Further reading

• colostrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔs.tʁɔm/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

  (file)

Noun

colostrum m (plural colostrums)

1. colostrum

Further reading

• “colostrum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; see colostra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫɔs.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlɔs.trum]

Noun

colostrum n (genitive colostrī); second declension

1. alternative form of colostra

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	colostrum	colostra
genitive	colostrī	colostrōrum
dative	colostrō	colostrīs
accusative	colostrum	colostra
ablative	colostrō	colostrīs
vocative	colostrum	colostra