membrum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛm.brũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛm.brum]
Noun
membrum n (genitive membrī); second declension
- (anatomy) limb of the body; member.
- (euphemistic) the penis (membrum virīle)
- a portion, division
- apartment, room in a house
- member of the state
- (Late Latin, Christianity) member of the Body of Christ, member of the church
- (grammar) clause of a sentence
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | membrum | membra |
| genitive | membrī | membrōrum |
| dative | membrō | membrīs |
| accusative | membrum | membra |
| ablative | membrō | membrīs |
| vocative | membrum | membra |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “membrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 370-1
Further reading
- “membrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “membrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "membrum", 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)
- membrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be affected by disease in every limb; to be paralysed: omnibus membris captum esse
- to be affected by disease in every limb; to be paralysed: omnibus membris captum esse
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “membrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 693