suffimen

Latin

Etymology

From suffiō (“I fumigate”) +‎ -men.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sufˈfiː.men/, [s̠ʊfˈfiːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sufˈfi.men/, [sufˈfiːmen]

Noun

suffīmen n (genitive suffīminis); third declension

1. incense, fumigation
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.731:

     ī, pete virgineā, populus, suffīmen ab ārā [...]
     sanguis equī suffīmen erit vitulīque favīlla.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	suffīmen	suffīmina
genitive	suffīminis	suffīminum
dative	suffīminī	suffīminibus
accusative	suffīmen	suffīmina
ablative	suffīmine	suffīminibus
vocative	suffīmen	suffīmina

References

• suffimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• suffimen in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “suffimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press