dolamen

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin dolō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Italic *-mn̥

Latin -men

Latin dolāmen

From dolō (“to hew, chop, fashion, devise”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔˈɫaː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [doˈlaː.men]

Noun

dolāmen n (genitive dolāminis); third declension

1. hewing

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	dolāmen	dolāmina
genitive	dolāminis	dolāminum
dative	dolāminī	dolāminibus
accusative	dolāmen	dolāmina
ablative	dolāmine	dolāminibus
vocative	dolāmen	dolāmina

Related terms

• dolō

References

• “dolamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.