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

Noun

fulmentum n (genitive fulmentī); second declension

  1. prop, stay, support

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

  1. ^ 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.