flamen

== English == === Alternative forms === flamin (obsolete) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfleɪmən/ Rhymes: -eɪmən Homophone: flehmen === Noun === flamen (plural flamens or flamines) (historical, Ancient Rome) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Italic *flāmen or *flādmen (“sacrificial act?”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₂-mn̥ or *bʰleh₂-d-mn̥, from a root *bʰleh₂- with or without an extension *-d-. (For the change of *-dm- to -m-, compare caementum.) A possible cognate in this case is Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (blōtan, “to honour”); see Proto-Germanic *blōtą. Alternatively, from Proto-Italic *flagsmen (“burnt offering?”), from pre-Latin *bʰl̥gsmn̥, from the root *bʰelg- (“to shine, burn”), which would make it cognate to flagrō (“to burn, blaze”) and flamma (“flame”). Traditionally connected to Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman): however, this etymology is now largely rejected. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫaː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflaː.men] ==== Noun ==== flāmen m (genitive flāminis, feminine flāmina); third declension priest, flamen ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== flāminātus flāminius flāminica ===== Descendants ===== → English: flamen → French: flamine → Italian: flamine → Portuguese: flâmine === Etymology 2 === From flō (“I breathe, blow”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). ==== Noun ==== flāmen n (genitive flāminis); third declension blast, gust (of wind) breeze ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === Further reading === “flamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “flamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “flamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “flamen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “flamen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin === References ===