flemen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), with a noun-forming suffix -men. Cognate with Latin flō (“I blow”), English blow, Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”), Albanian plas (“to blow, explode”)[1].

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfleː.men/, [ˈfɫeː.mɛn]

Noun

flēmen n (genitive flēminis); third declension

  1. A bloody swelling about the ankles

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative flēmen flēmina
Genitive flēminis flēminum
Dative flēminī flēminibus
Accusative flēmen flēmina
Ablative flēmine flēminibus
Vocative flēmen flēmina

References
  • flemina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • flemen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “bhel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 120-121
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