suffimen

suffimen

Latin

Etymology

    From suffiō (“to fumigate”) + -men.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    suffīmen n (genitive suffīminis); third declension

    1. incense, fumigation
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, 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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