levamen
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From levō (“I soften, mitigate”) + -men. See also levāmentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
levāmen n (genitive levāminis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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")
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
- levamen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- levamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette