flamen
English
Alternative forms
- flamin (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfleɪmən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪmən
- Homophone: flehmen
Noun
flamen (plural flamens or flamines)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
Derived terms
Translations
Latin
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Italic *flāmen or *flādmen (“sacrificial act?”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₂-mn̥ or *bʰleh₂-d-mn̥, from a root *bʰleh₂- with or without an extension *-d-.[1] (For the change of *-dm- to -m-, compare caementum.) A possible cognate in this case is Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (blōtan, “to honour”);[2][3] see Proto-Germanic *blōtą. Alternatively, from Proto-Italic *flagsmen (“burnt offering?”), from pre-Latin *bʰl̥gsmn̥, from the root *bʰelg- (“to shine, burn”),[1] which would make it cognate to flagrō (“to burn, blaze”) and flamma (“flame”). Traditionally connected to Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman): however, this etymology is now largely rejected.[1][3]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫaː.mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflaː.men]
Noun
flāmen m (genitive flāminis, feminine flāmina); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | flāmen | flāminēs |
| genitive | flāminis | flāminum |
| dative | flāminī | flāminibus |
| accusative | flāminem | flāminēs |
| ablative | flāmine | flāminibus |
| vocative | flāmen | flāminēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From flō (“I breathe, blow”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
flāmen n (genitive flāminis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | flāmen | flāmina |
| genitive | flāminis | flāminum |
| dative | flāminī | flāminibus |
| accusative | flāmen | flāmina |
| ablative | flāmine | flāminibus |
| vocative | flāmen | flāmina |
Further reading
- “flamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “flamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “flamen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “flamen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “flāmen, -inis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 225
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 176-177