agmen

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Latin

Etymology

From agō (“do, act”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

agmen n (genitive agminis); third declension

  1. a train of something; multitude, host, crowd, flock
  2. an army, column, troop, band; line of troops
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.82–83:
      ac ventī, velut agmine factō,
      quā data porta ruunt et terrās turbine perflant.
      And the winds, as if become a column, whereby given passage rush and blow ’cross the world in a whirlwind.
      (King Aeolus releases the winds like a military force to destroy the Trojan fleet. See: Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
  3. (of water) stream, course, current, motion
  4. (of an army) procession, march, progress, movement
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.212–213:
      “ Illī agmine certō / Lāocoönta petunt .”
      “ with a steady march make straight for Laocoön .” – Aeneas

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative agmen agmina
Genitive agminis agminum
Dative agminī agminibus
Accusative agmen agmina
Ablative agmine agminibus
Vocative agmen agmina

Derived terms

References

  • “agmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “agmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • agmen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • agmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
    • the vanguard: agmen primum
    • the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)
    • to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
    • to set the army in motion: agmen agere
    • to lead the army with forced marches: citatum agmen rapere
    • to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere
    • to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
    • to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
    • in two, three columns: agmine duplici, triplici
  • “agmen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “agmen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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