lignamen

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. timber

Declension

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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

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  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: lenyam[2]
    • Old Occitan: lenham
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Eastern Romance:

References

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  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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