carmen

carmen

1. plural of carman

• -mancer, Camren

From Old Latin casmen (“song”), believed to be for earlier *cansmen, abstract noun formed from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”). Confer canō (“I sing, chant”), and the suffix -men.

Alternative etymology connects casmen, *cansmen to Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to speak in a florid, solemn style, attest, witness”), relating it to Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hazjan, “to praise”), Old English herian (“to praise, extol, commend”). See herry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.men/, [ˈkar.mɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.men/

carmen n (genitive carminis); third declension

1. song
2. poem
3. play
4. charm
5. prayer
6. incantation
7. ritual
8. magic
9. card for flax or wool

Third declension neuter.

• carminō

• English: charm (through Old French)
• French: charme
• Italian: carme
• Portuguese: carme
• Spanish: carmen

• carmen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carmen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carmen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• carmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • epic poetry: carmen epicum
    
  • to recite a poem, line with appropriate action: carmen, versum agere
    
  • to read a piece of verse with expression: carmen recitare
    
  • to recite a piece of verse (without gestures): carmen pronuntiare
    
  • a rough poem; an extempore effusion: carmen inconditum
    
  • a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
    
  • to read prayers for the congregation to repeat: praeire verba (carmen) (Liv. 31. 17)
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)
    
• carmen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carmen in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

carmen m (plural cármenes)

1. A type of house in Granada