Vitumnus

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Latin

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”) + *-mnos (“agent noun suffix”), and cognate to vīvō (“to live”) and vīta (“life”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈtum.nus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈtum.nus/,

Proper noun

Vītumnus m (genitive Vītumnī); second declension

a minor Roman god that gives life to a child in the womb; a god of quickening

Usage notes

Vītumnus had the epithet vīvificātor (“life-giver”) and was associated by Augustine with Sentīnus, the giver of sentience.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Vītumnus	Vītumnī
genitive	Vītumnī	Vītumnōrum
dative	Vītumnō	Vītumnīs
accusative	Vītumnum	Vītumnōs
ablative	Vītumnō	Vītumnīs
vocative	Vītumne	Vītumnī

Further reading

“Vitumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Vitumnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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