fulmentum
Latin
Etymology
From fulc- (the root of fulciō) + -mentum, with regular simplification of *-lkm- to -lm-.[1] Doublet of fulcīmentum (“prop, stay, support”), built on the verb's present stem fulcī-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fʊɫˈmɛn.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fulˈmɛn̪.t̪um]
Noun
fulmentum n (genitive fulmentī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fulmentum | fulmenta |
| genitive | fulmentī | fulmentōrum |
| dative | fulmentō | fulmentīs |
| accusative | fulmentum | fulmenta |
| ablative | fulmentō | fulmentīs |
| vocative | fulmentum | fulmenta |
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 247: “fulmentum < *fulk-men-to”
Further reading
- “fulmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fulmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.