Latin

Noun

caenum n ‎(genitive caenī); second declension

1. dirt, filth, mud, mire

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• caenulentus

Descendants

• Spanish: cieno

References

• caenum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caenum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caenum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill