libamen

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Latin

Etymology

From lībō (“I make a libation”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

lībāmen n (genitive lībāminis); third declension

  1. libation, offering to the gods; firstfruits
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.733–734:
      Nōmine ab auctōris dūcunt lībāmina nōmen
      lībaque, quod sānctīs pars datur inde focīs.
      Libations and cakes draw their names from the name of their inventor,
      because a portion of them is being offered upon the sacred hearths.
      (Ovid credits the god Liber, or Bacchus, with the origin of ancient sacred ritual practices, such as offering a ‘‘libamen’’ (libation) and a ‘‘libum’’ (cake). For another likely link to Liber’s name – and the Latin ‘‘libo’’ – see also the Greek λείβω, ‘‘to pour.’’)

Declension

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

singular plural
nominative lībāmen lībāmina
genitive lībāminis lībāminum
dative lībāminī lībāminibus
accusative lībāmen lībāmina
ablative lībāmine lībāminibus
vocative lībāmen lībāmina

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Italian: libame

References

  • “libamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “libamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • libamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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