liquamen

Borrowed from Latin liquamen.

liquamen (uncountable)

1. (historical) A fish sauce used in Ancient Rome.

• garum

Derived from liquō (“I melt, liquefy”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liˈkʷaː.men/, [lʲɪˈkʷäːmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈkwa.men/, [liˈkwäːmen]

liquāmen n (genitive liquāminis); third declension

1. liquid mixture
2. fish sauce

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

• liquamentum

• Italian: liquame

• garum

• “liquamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• liquamen 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)
• liquamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette