palpamen

Latin

Etymology

From palpō (“touch softly, stroke; caress”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /palˈpaː.men/, [päɫ̪ˈpäːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /palˈpa.men/, [pälˈpäːmen]

Noun

palpāmen n (genitive palpāminis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a stroking, caressing

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palpāmen	palpāmina
Genitive	palpāminis	palpāminum
Dative	palpāminī	palpāminibus
Accusative	palpāmen	palpāmina
Ablative	palpāmine	palpāminibus
Vocative	palpāmen	palpāmina

Synonyms

• (stroking): palpāmentum, palpātiō

Related terms

• palpābilis
• palpāmentum
• palpātiō
• palpātor
• palpebra
• palpebrālis
• palpebrāris
• palpebrātiō
• palpebrō
• palpitātiō
• palpitātus
• palpitō
• palpō
• palpus

References

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