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Latin
Etymology
From ab + secō, according to Festus.
Pronunciation
Noun
absegmen n (genitive absegminis); third declension
- piece of flesh
c. 2nd century,
Sextus Pompeius Festus,
De Verborum Significatione :
- Poenitam offam Naevius appellpat absegmen carnis cum coda: antiqui autem offam vocabant abscisum globi forma, ut manu glomeratam pultem
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “absegmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- absegmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.