femen

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfe.mən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfe.men]

femen

1. third-person plural present indicative of femar

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.men]

femen n (genitive feminis); third declension

1. (rare) alternative form of femur (“thigh”)
   • 3rd century CE, Lucius Ampelius, Liber Memorialis 30:

     quod cum conaretur efficere, femen suum vulneravit et eam partem qua Apin vulneraverat

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

• “fĕmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fĕmĕn”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• femen in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

• feme
• feamin (Early Middle English)

From Old English fǣman, from Proto-West Germanic *faimijan; compare fomen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ̝ːmən/

femen (third-person singular simple present femeth, present participle femende, femynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle femed)

1. To foam at the mouth; to spew foamy saliva.
2. To cover or douse (in blood).
3. (figuratively) To rage; to be irate.

• Replaced by fomen after the 14th century.

• “femen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

femen

1. inflection of femar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative