ligamen

Latin

Etymology

From ligō (“I tie, bind, bandage”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liˈɡaː.men/, [lʲɪˈɡäːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈɡa.men/, [liˈɡäːmen]

Noun

ligāmen n (genitive ligāminis); third declension

1. a bandage, band, tie
2. (Medieval Latin) poultice; bandage with herbal medicine

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ligāmen	ligāmina
Genitive	ligāminis	ligāminum
Dative	ligāminī	ligāminibus
Accusative	ligāmen	ligāmina
Ablative	ligāmine	ligāminibus
Vocative	ligāmen	ligāmina

Descendants

• Italian: legame
• Old French: lien, lïen (diareses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
  • Middle French: lien, lyen
    • French: lien
    • → Middle English: lien
      • English: lien
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: lligam
  • Occitan: ligam
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: liame
  • Portuguese: liame
• Sicilian: lijama

References

• “ligamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ligamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ligamen 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)
• ligamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Noun

ligamen m (plural ligámenes)

1. link; union

Further reading

• “ligamen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014