medicamen
Latin
Etymology
From medicō (“I cure”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛ.dɪˈkaː.mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [me.d̪iˈkaː.men]
Noun
medicāmen n (genitive medicāminis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | medicāmen | medicāmina |
| genitive | medicāminis | medicāminum |
| dative | medicāminī | medicāminibus |
| accusative | medicāmen | medicāmina |
| ablative | medicāmine | medicāminibus |
| vocative | medicāmen | medicāmina |
Descendants
- Spanish: vedegambre
References
- “medicamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “medicamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- medicamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.