sagmen

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (to sanctify, to make a treaty).[1] Compare Latin sanciō and sacer.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sagmen n (genitive sagminis); third declension

  1. the tuft of sacred herbs plucked within the citadel by the consul

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sagmen sagmina
Genitive sagminis sagminum
Dative sagminī sagminibus
Accusative sagmen sagmina
Ablative sagmine sagminibus
Vocative sagmen sagmina

References[edit]

  • sagmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sagmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “sagmen”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 464