munimen

Latin

Etymology

From mūniō (“I defend”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /muːˈniː.men/, [muːˈniːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈni.men/, [muˈniːmen]

Noun

mūnīmen n (genitive mūnīminis); third declension

1. defence, fortification, rampart, enclosure

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūnīmen	mūnīmina
Genitive	mūnīminis	mūnīminum
Dative	mūnīminī	mūnīminibus
Accusative	mūnīmen	mūnīmina
Ablative	mūnīmine	mūnīminibus
Vocative	mūnīmen	mūnīmina

Related terms

• mūniō

References

• “munimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “munimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• munimen 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)
• munimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.