famex

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Latin

Alternative forms

fāmix

Etymology

Uncertain;^[1] proposed derivations include:

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mo-, whence also Ancient Greek θλάσμα (thlásma, “contusion”), σμῶδιξ (smôdix, “weal”).
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰHt-. Cognates include fatuus (“silly, stupid”) and battuō (“I strike, beat”).
From a Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₂-mik-s-, whence also Ancient Greek θάμιξ (thámix, “fox”), θῶμιγξ (thôminx, “string”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.meks/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.meks/,

Noun

fāmex f (genitive fāmicis); third declension

(pathology) A bruise, contusion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fāmex	fāmicēs
genitive	fāmicis	fāmicum
dative	fāmicī	fāmicibus
accusative	fāmicem	fāmicēs
ablative	fāmice	fāmicibus
vocative	fāmex	fāmicēs

References

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

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “famex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 452

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