sedimen

Latin

Etymology

From sedeō (“to sit; to longer, to loiter; to settle, to subside”) +‎ -men.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.di.men/, [ˈs̠ɛd̪ɪmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.di.men/, [ˈsɛːd̪imen]

Noun

sedimen n (genitive sediminis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) settling, sediment

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	sedimen	sedimina
genitive	sediminis	sediminum
dative	sediminī	sediminibus
accusative	sedimen	sedimina
ablative	sedimine	sediminibus
vocative	sedimen	sedimina

Related terms

• sedimentum

Descendants

• Galician: celme

References

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