lignamen

Latin

Etymology

From lignum (“firewood”) +‎ -men. Attested in the Edictum Rothari.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

lignāmen n (genitive lignāminis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. timber

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lignāmen lignāmina
Genitive lignāminis lignāminum
Dative lignāminī lignāminibus
Accusative lignāmen lignāmina
Ablative lignāmine lignāminibus
Vocative lignāmen lignāmina

Descendants
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: lenyam[2]
      • Catalan: llenyam
  • Italo-Romance:

References
  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “lignamen”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 612
  2. “lenyam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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