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Latin
Etymology
From ligō (“tie, bind”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
ligāmentum n (genitive ligāmentī); second declension
- bandage
- ligament
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “ligamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ligamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ligamentum 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)
- ligamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.