levamen

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From levō (“I soften, mitigate”) +‎ -men. See also levāmentum.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leˈwaː.men/, [ɫɛˈwaː.mẽ]

NounEdit

levāmen n (genitive levāminis); third declension

1. alleviation, mitigation
2. solace, consolation

InflectionEdit

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	levāmen	levāmina
genitive	levāminis	levāminum
dative	levāminī	levāminibus
accusative	levāmen	levāmina
ablative	levāmine	levāminibus
vocative	levāmen	levāmina

DescendantsEdit

(from the Late or Vulgar Latin, with the sense of "leaven")

• Old French: levain
  • English: leaven
  • French: levain

• Friulian: levan
• Occitan: levam
• Romansch: levon
• Walloon: lewin

ReferencesEdit

• levamen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• levamen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “levamen”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “levamen” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)