curvamen

== Latin == === Etymology === From curvō (“to bend”) + -men. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊrˈwaː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kurˈvaː.men] === Noun === curvāmen n (genitive curvāminis); third declension a bend, vaulting ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === References === “curvamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “curvamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers