amuletum

== Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. Watkins suggests a derivation from amylum (“starch”) as an original meaning of a medicine containing starch. Also compare āmōlior (“to remove from; to repel”), and Ancient Greek ἀμύνω (amúnō, “to ward off”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.mʊˈɫeː.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.muˈlɛː.tum] === Noun === amulētum n (genitive amulētī); second declension an amulet ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: amulet English: amulet German: Amulett Middle French: amulette → English: amulet French: amulette→ Dutch: amuletAfrikaans: amulet→ Indonesian: amulet Portuguese: amuleto Russian: амуле́т (amulét) Spanish: amuleto === References === “amuletum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “amuletum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “amuletum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers amuletum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “amuletum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.