libramen

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.

Proto-Italic *līðrā?

Latin lībra

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin lībrō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Italic *-mn̥

Latin -men

Latin lībrāmen

From lībrō (“to balance, poise”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lībrāmen n (genitive lībrāminis); third declension

1. balance, poise

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	lībrāmen	lībrāmina
genitive	lībrāminis	lībrāminum
dative	lībrāminī	lībrāminibus
accusative	lībrāmen	lībrāmina
ablative	lībrāmine	lībrāminibus
vocative	lībrāmen	lībrāmina

References

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