spurcamen

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Latin

Etymology

From spurcō (“to make dirty, befoul, defile”) +‎ -men (neuter noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

spurcāmen n (genitive spurcāminis); third declension

  1. dirt, filth

Declension

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

singular plural
nominative spurcāmen spurcāmina
genitive spurcāminis spurcāminum
dative spurcāminī spurcāminibus
accusative spurcāmen spurcāmina
ablative spurcāmine spurcāminibus
vocative spurcāmen spurcāmina

References

  • “spurcamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • spurcamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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