lumectum

== Latin == === Etymology === From lūma (“thorn”) +‎ -tum. The -ec- appears to be by analogy to forms like frutectum (“thicket, bush”), cārectum (“reed bed”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫuːˈmɛk.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [luˈmɛk.tum] === Noun === lūmectum n (genitive lūmectī); second declension a thicket of thorns ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “lumectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lumectum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.