firmamentum

== Latin == === Etymology === From firmō (“strengthen”) +‎ -mentum, from firmus (“firm”). Literally, “that which strengthens or supports”. The meaning of "a strengthening, support, prop", especially in the figurative sense (of an argument etc., τὸ συνέχον (tò sunékhon)) is classical, and frequently occurs in Cicero. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɪr.maːˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fir.maˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === firmāmentum n (genitive firmāmentī); second declension A strengthening, support, prop, stay. The firmament; the sky fixed above the earth. Vulgate: Genesis 1,7-8 Et fecit Deus firmamentum divisitque aquas, quae erant sub firmamento, ab his, quae erant super firmamentum. [8] Vocavitque Deus firmamentum Caelum. And God made the firmament and divided the waters, that were under the firmament, from those, that were above the firmament. [8] And God called the firmament the sky. The main point or crux (of an argument). ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “firmamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “firmamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "firmamentum", 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) “firmamentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. https://web.archive.org/web/20110627035824/http://biologos.org/uploads/projects/godawa_scholarly_paper_2.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20090305132849/http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/01-Genesis/Text/Articles-Books/Seely-Firmament-WTJ.pdf