tutamen

Latin

Etymology

From tūtor (watch, guard, defend) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

tūtāmen n (genitive tūtāminis); third declension

  1. A means of protection; protection, defence or defense.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tūtāmen tūtāmina
Genitive tūtāminis tūtāminum
Dative tūtāminī tūtāminibus
Accusative tūtāmen tūtāmina
Ablative tūtāmine tūtāminibus
Vocative tūtāmen tūtāmina

Synonyms

References

  • tutamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tutamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tutamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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