stagnum

English

Etymology

Latin stāgnum

Noun

stagnum (plural stagna)

1. (obsolete) A millpond.
   • 1865, John Fisher (of Masham.), The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire (page 182)

     See ante p. 44, where allusion is made to the grant by Roger de Mowbray to John, son of Drin, who had liberty to make this mill, and to fasten a stagnum or mill-pool.

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to seep, drip”), source of Ancient Greek στάζω (stázō, “to drip”), with different ablaut grade. Conversely, possibly related to Ancient Greek τέναγος (ténagos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstaːɡ.num/, [ˈs̠t̪äːŋnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstaɲ.ɲum/, [ˈst̪äɲːum]

Noun

stāgnum n (genitive stāgnī); second declension

1. pond, swamp, fen; any piece of standing water
2. (poetic) waters
3. (poetic) any pool or lake in general

   Stāgnum ignis.

   A lake of fire.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stāgnum	stāgna
Genitive	stāgnī	stāgnōrum
Dative	stāgnō	stāgnīs
Accusative	stāgnum	stāgna
Ablative	stāgnō	stāgnīs
Vocative	stāgnum	stāgna

Coordinate terms

• lacus, palūs

Derived terms

• stāgnensis
• stāgni incola
• stāgnālis
• stāgnātor
• stāgnīnus
• stāgnō
• stāgnōsus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: estany
• Italian: stagno
• Occitan: estanh
• Spanish: estanque
• Portuguese: estanque

Etymology 2

Noun

stagnum n (genitive stagnī); second declension

1. Alternative form of stannum

Usage notes

The use of the spelling stagnum as a form of stannum (“tin”) is unattested before Pliny. Some analyses suspect a Gaulish interference may have caused the rise of this alternative form.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stagnum	stagna
Genitive	stagnī	stagnōrum
Dative	stagnō	stagnīs
Accusative	stagnum	stagna
Ablative	stagnō	stagnīs
Vocative	stagnum	stagna

References

• “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stagnum 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)
• stagnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stāgnum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 585