levamen

== Latin == === Etymology === From levō (“to soften, mitigate”) +‎ -men. See also levāmentum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫɛˈwaː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [leˈvaː.men] === Noun === levāmen n (genitive levāminis); third declension alleviation, mitigation solace, consolation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === References === “levamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “levamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "levamen", 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) “levamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.