affamen

Latin

Alternative forms

• adfāmen

Etymology

From affor (“speak to, address”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /afˈfaː.men/, [äfˈfäːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /afˈfa.men/, [äfˈfäːmen]

Noun

affāmen n (genitive affāminis); third declension

1. An accosting; greeting, address.

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	affāmen	affāmina
Genitive	affāminis	affāminum
Dative	affāminī	affāminibus
Accusative	affāmen	affāmina
Ablative	affāmine	affāminibus
Vocative	affāmen	affāmina

Related terms

• affābilis
• affābilitās
• affābiliter
• affor

References

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