flemen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), with a noun-forming suffix -men. Cognate with Latin flō (“I blow”), English blow, Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”), Albanian plas (“to blow, explode”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfleː.men/, [ˈfɫ̪eːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfle.men/, [ˈflɛːmen]

Noun

flēmen n (genitive flēminis); third declension

1. A bloody swelling about the ankles

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	flēmen	flēmina
Genitive	flēminis	flēminum
Dative	flēminī	flēminibus
Accusative	flēmen	flēmina
Ablative	flēmine	flēminibus
Vocative	flēmen	flēmina

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• flem, fleme
• flæmen, fleome (Early Middle English)
• vleme (Kent)

Etymology

From Old English flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight, flow”) as if Proto-West Germanic *flaumijan; by surface analysis, fleme (“exile”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleːmən/

Verb

flemen (third-person singular simple present flemeth, present participle flemende, flemynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle flemed)

1. To drive away or banish; to force out.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxviij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     Sir kynge, ye ded a fowle shame whan ye flemyd Sir Trystram oute of thys contrey, for ye nedid nat to have doughted no knyght and he had bene here.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. To (legally or officially exile from a jurisdiction.
   2. To remove or expel (a spirit or emotion)
2. (rare) To denounce or damn; to speak against.
3. (rare) To be expelled or forced out.

Conjugation

Conjugation of flemen (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) flemen, fleme
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	fleme	flemed
2nd-person singular	flemest	flemedest
3rd-person singular	flemeth	flemed
subjunctive singular	fleme
imperative singular		—
plural1	flemen, fleme	flemeden, flemede
imperative plural	flemeth, fleme	—
participles	flemynge, flemende	flemed, yflemed

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: fleme (obsolete)
• Scots: fleem, fleme (obsolete)

References

• “flẹ̄men, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.