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Latin
Etymology
From statuō (“to hold up, fix upright”) + -men.
Pronunciation
Noun
statūmen n (genitive statūminis); third declension
- that upon which any thing rests.
- a support, stay, prop.
- a rib of a ship.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “statumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “statumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- statumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.