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Latin
Etymology
From sedeō (“to sit; to longer, to loiter; to settle, to subside”) + -men.
Pronunciation
Noun
sedimen n (genitive sediminis); third declension
- (Late Latin) settling, sediment
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “sedimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sedimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sedimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.