agmen

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵ-mn̥ ~ *h₂ǵ-mén-s (“army, band, troop; marching of an army”), from the root *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Cognate with Sanskrit अज्म॑न् (ájman, “army, band, flock; procession of an army”). Surface analysis is agō (“do, act”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaɡ.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaɡ.men] === Noun === agmen n (genitive agminis); third declension a train of something; multitude, host, crowd, flock an army, column, troop, band; line or rank of troops (of water) stream, course, current, motion (of an army) procession, march, progress, movement ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== agminālis agminātim === References === “agmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “agmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "agmen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “agmen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “agmen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “agmen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin