segmen

Borrowed from Dutch segment, from French segment, from Latin segmentum.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡmɛn/ [ˈsɛk̚.mɛn]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡmɛn
• Syllabification: seg‧men

segmen (plural segmen-segmen)

1. segment
   1. portion, section
   2. (geometry) circular segment

      Synonym: tembereng

   3. a portion.
   4. (botany) portion of an organ derived from a single cell within the primordium
   5. (zoology) one of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain
   6. (phonology) discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

• “segmen”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From secō (“I cut”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

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

segmen n (genitive segminis); third declension

1. shred (piece cut off)

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

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