moderamen

Unadapted borrowing from Latin moderāmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoː.dəˈraːmə(n)/
• Hyphenation: mo‧de‧ra‧men

moderamen n (plural moderamina, no diminutive)

1. (Christianity) the leadership of a church governing council at a local, regional or national level

• → Indonesian: moderamen

• moderamen on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch moderamen, from Latin moderāmen.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /modəˈramən/ [mo.dəˈra.mən]
• Rhymes: -amən
• Syllabification: mo‧de‧ra‧men

moderamen (plural moderamen-moderamen)

1. (Christianity, Protestantism) executive leadership board of a Protestant church

• “moderamen”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From moderor +‎ -men.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔ.dɛˈraː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mo.deˈraː.men]

moderāmen n (genitive moderāminis); third declension

1. a means of controlling

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

• “moderamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moderamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “moderamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.