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Latin
Etymology
From suffiō (“I fumigate”) + -men.
Pronunciation
Noun
suffīmen n (genitive suffīminis); third declension
- incense, fumigation
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.731:
- ī, pete virgineā, populus, suffīmen ab ārā
sanguis equī suffīmen erit vitulīque favīlla.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- suffimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- suffimen in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “suffimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press