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fomentum

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Latin

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Etymology

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Contraction of *fovimentum, from foveō (keep warm; support, assist) +‎ -mentum (compare mōmentum, from moveō).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fōmentum n (genitive fōmentī); second declension

  1. (medicine, usually in the plural) A warm application, lotion, compress or poultice, fomentation.
  2. (by extension) Kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder.
  3. (figuratively) A remedy, lenitive, mitigation, alleviation.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative fōmentum fōmenta
genitive fōmentī fōmentōrum
dative fōmentō fōmentīs
accusative fōmentum fōmenta
ablative fōmentō fōmentīs
vocative fōmentum fōmenta

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: foment
  • Galician: fomento
  • Italian: fomento
  • Portuguese: fomento
  • Sicilian: fumentu
  • Spanish: fomento

References

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  • fomentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fomentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fomentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fomentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.