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Latin
Etymology
From axō (“I name, nominate”) + -mentum.
According to Lewis & Short, from the sense of 'plank' of axis, as that's what the poems were written on.
Pronunciation
Noun
axāmenta n pl (genitive axāmentōrum); second declension
- religious hymns, which were annually sung by the Salii
1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 3, line 6:Axāmenta dīcēbantur carmina Saliāria, quae ā Saliīs sacerdōtibus canēbantur, in ūnīversōs hominēs composita. Nam in deōs singulōs versūs factī ā nōminibus eōrum appellābantur, ut Iānulī, Iūnōniī, Minerviī.- Axamenta were called the incantations of the Salii, which were sung by the Salii priests, written for all people. Because verses written for individual gods were called by their names, like Janus verses, Juno verses, Minerva verses.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
References
- “axamenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- axamenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.