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Latin
Etymology
From modulor (“to sing”) + -men.
Pronunciation
Noun
modulāmen n (genitive modulāminis); third declension
- singing, chanting, making music
- song, melody
- harmony, euphony
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “modulamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- modulamen 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)
- modulamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Dictionary of Medieval Latin in British Sources