vitulamen

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from vītis (“vine”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix) +‎ -men (noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iː.tuˈlaː.men/, [u̯iːt̪ʊˈɫ̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.tuˈla.men/, [vit̪uˈläːmen]

Noun

vītulāmen n (genitive vītulāminis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) shoot, sucker, sprig

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vītulāmen	vītulāmina
Genitive	vītulāminis	vītulāminum
Dative	vītulāminī	vītulāminibus
Accusative	vītulāmen	vītulāmina
Ablative	vītulāmine	vītulāminibus
Vocative	vītulāmen	vītulāmina

References

• “vitulamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitulamen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vitulamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.