ablegmen

Latin

Etymology

Seemingly from ab- +‎ legō (“choose, select”) +‎ -men. Possibly compare ἀπολέγω (apolégō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈleɡ.men/, [äbˈɫ̪ɛɡmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈleɡ.men/, [äbˈlɛɡmen]

Noun

ablegmen n (genitive ablegminis); third declension

1. parts of entrails which were sacrificed
   • Sextus Festus Pompeius, De Verborum Significatione quae Supersunt cum Pauli Epitome 25.9:

     Inimixtum est Ablegmina, quod si quis olim Amblegmina fuisse opinentur, non renitar equidem

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	ablegmen	ablegmina
genitive	ablegminis	ablegminum
dative	ablegminī	ablegminibus
accusative	ablegmen	ablegmina
ablative	ablegmine	ablegminibus
vocative	ablegmen	ablegmina

References

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