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Latin
Etymology
From dulcō (“I sweeten”, stem with thematic vowel: dulcā-) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns).
Pronunciation
Noun
dulcāmen n (genitive dulcāminis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) Synonym of dulcēdō
- 996–1015, Dudo super congregationem S. Quintini Decani (author), Andreas Duchesnius Turonensis (editor), De moribus et actis primorum Normanniæ ducum, libri III in Hiſtoriæ Normannorum ſcriptores antiqui (1619), Preface, “Adlocutio ad librum”, lines 1–6, pages 56d–57a:
Temate pertenui quoniam digeſtus haberis, // Rhetorica ratione carens dulcaminis omni, // Liber, interno cùm te perſcrutor ocello; // Ægrè fert animus quòd vulgo ducere geſtis // Quæ digeſta ſtylo nequicquam ſcemata noſtro, // Et ſubſannêris tumido vafróque tumultus.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ibidem, book III, page 117d:
- Multimodis illum ſermonibus libenter inſignibant, & mellifluo Palatinæ ſermocinationis dulcamine erudiebant.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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