spurcamen

Latin

Etymology

From spurcō (“to make dirty, befoul, defile”) +‎ -men (neuter noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soːˈlaː.men/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈla.men/, [soˈläːmen]

Noun

spurcāmen n (genitive spurcāminis); third declension

1. dirt, filth

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	spurcāmen	spurcāmina
Genitive	spurcāminis	spurcāminum
Dative	spurcāminī	spurcāminibus
Accusative	spurcāmen	spurcāmina
Ablative	spurcāmine	spurcāminibus
Vocative	spurcāmen	spurcāmina

References

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