tutamen
Latin
Etymology
From tūtor (“watch, guard, defend”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tuːˈtaː.mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪uˈt̪aː.men]
Noun
tūtāmen n (genitive tūtāminis); third declension
- A means of protection; protection, defence or defense.
- decus et tutamen ― an ornament and a safeguard (motto on the edge of certain British coins, whose presence prevents the coin from being clipped)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tūtāmen | tūtāmina |
| genitive | tūtāminis | tūtāminum |
| dative | tūtāminī | tūtāminibus |
| accusative | tūtāmen | tūtāmina |
| ablative | tūtāmine | tūtāminibus |
| vocative | tūtāmen | tūtāmina |
Synonyms
- (protection): mūnīmentum, praesidium, tuitiō, tūtāculum, tūtāmentum
Related terms
References
- “tutamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tutamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tutamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.