stagnum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin stāgnum. === Noun === stagnum (plural stagna) (obsolete) A millpond. 1865, John Fisher (of Masham.), The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire (page 182) See ante p. 44, where allusion is made to the grant by Roger de Mowbray to John, son of Drin, who had liberty to make this mill, and to fasten a stagnum or mill-pool. === Anagrams === tangums, magnuts, manguts, Gutmans, mustang, Mustang == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to seep, drip”), whence also Ancient Greek στάζω (stázō, “to drip”) (with different ablaut grade), as well as Old Breton staer (“river, brook”). Conversely, possibly related to Ancient Greek τέναγος (ténagos, “shoal water, shallows”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstaːŋ.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈstaɲ.ɲum] ==== Noun ==== stāgnum n (genitive stāgnī); second declension a body of standing water (such as a pond, lagoon, swamp, fen or pool) (poetic) waters (poetic) any pool or lake in general ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Coordinate terms ===== lacus, palūs ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: estany Italian: stagno Occitan: estanh Spanish: estanque Portuguese: estanque === Etymology 2 === The spelling stagnum as a form of stannum (“tin”) is unattested before Pliny. Some analyses suspect a Gaulish interference may have caused the rise of this alternative form (compare Proto-Celtic *stagnom). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstaŋ.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈstaɲ.ɲum] ==== Noun ==== stagnum n (genitive stagnī); second declension alternative form of stannum (“tin”) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === === Further reading === “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “stagnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "stagnum", 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) “stagnum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.