tutamen

Latin

Etymology

From tūtor (“watch, guard, defend”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tuːˈtaː.men/, [t̪uːˈt̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tuˈta.men/, [t̪uˈt̪äːmen]

Noun

tūtāmen n (genitive tūtāminis); third declension

1. A means of protection; protection, defence or defense.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	tūtāmen	tūtāmina
genitive	tūtāminis	tūtāminum
dative	tūtāminī	tūtāminibus
accusative	tūtāmen	tūtāmina
ablative	tūtāmine	tūtāminibus
vocative	tūtāmen	tūtāmina

Synonyms

• (protection): mūnīmentum, praesidium, tuitiō, tūtāculum, tūtāmentum

Related terms

Related terms

• tueor
• tuitiō
• tūtāculum
• tūtāmentum
• tūtātiō
• tūtātor
• tūtor
• tūtōrius
• tūtrīx
• tūtus

References

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