latomus

latoa +‎ -mus

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtomus/,
• Rhymes: -ɑtomus
• Syllabification^(key): la‧to‧mus

latomus

1. pile, stack (the result of piling or stacking up)

• “latomus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• lautumus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λᾱτόμος (lātómos, “stonecutter”), from λᾶᾰς (lâas, “stone”) +‎ τόμος (tómos, “cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). The collateral form lautumus reflects the variant λᾱοτόμος (lāotómos) and shows adaptation to Latin phonotactics (āo→au) as well as vowel weakening in middle syllables (o→u), which suggests that it's the older form and lātomus is a younger, more literal borrowing.

lātomus m (genitive lātomī); second declension

1. quarryman

   Synonym: lapicīda

2. stonemason

   Synonym: lapidārius

Second-declension noun.

• lautumia
• lapicīda

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