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Latin
Etymology
From palpō (“touch softly, stroke; caress”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
palpāmen n (genitive palpāminis); third declension
- (Late Latin) a stroking, caressing
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Synonyms
References
- “palpamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- palpamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.