sedimen

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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

  1. (Late Latin) settling, sediment

Declension

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

Descendants

  • Galician: celme

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.