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”)[1].
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfleː.men/, [ˈfɫ̪eːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfle.men/, [ˈflɛːmen]
Noun
flēmen n (genitive flēminis); third declension
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.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 120-121