petimen

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Latin

Etymology

From petō +‎ -men.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

petimen n (genitive petiminis); third declension

  1. (pathology) A sore on the shoulder of a beast of burden

Declension

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

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “petō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 463-464
  • petimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • petimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.