fomentum
Latin
Etymology
Contraction of *fovimentum, from foveō (“keep warm; support, assist”) + -mentum (compare mōmentum, from moveō).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [foːˈmɛn.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [foˈmɛn̪.t̪um]
Noun
fōmentum n (genitive fōmentī); second declension
- (medicine, usually in the plural) A warm application, lotion, compress or poultice, fomentation.
- (by extension) Kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder.
- (figuratively) A remedy, lenitive, mitigation, alleviation.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fōmentum | fōmenta |
| genitive | fōmentī | fōmentōrum |
| dative | fōmentō | fōmentīs |
| accusative | fōmentum | fōmenta |
| ablative | fōmentō | fōmentīs |
| vocative | fōmentum | fōmenta |
Synonyms
- (kindling-wood): fōmes
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: foment
- Galician: fomento
- Italian: fomento
- Portuguese: fomento
- Sicilian: fumentu
- Spanish: fomento
References
- “fomentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fomentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fomentum", 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)
- fomentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.