suffimen

Latin

Etymology

From suffiō (“I fumigate”) +‎ -men.

Pronunciation

Noun

suffīmen n (genitive suffīminis); third declension

  1. incense, fumigation
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.731:
      ī, pete virgineā, populus, suffīmen ab ārā [...]
      sanguis equī suffīmen erit vitulīque favīlla.
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Declension

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

singular plural
nominative suffīmen suffīmina
genitive suffīminis suffīminum
dative suffīminī suffīminibus
accusative suffīmen suffīmina
ablative suffīmine suffīminibus
vocative suffīmen suffīmina

References

  • “suffimen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • suffimen in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • “suffimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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