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excrementum
excrementum
Latin
Noun
excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| genitive | excrēmentī | excrēmentōrum |
| dative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| accusative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| ablative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| vocative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
Related terms
Descendants
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Etymology 2
From excrēscō (“grow or rise up or out”).
Noun
excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension
- that which grows out or rises up; an elevation, prominence
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| genitive | excrēmentī | excrēmentōrum |
| dative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| accusative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
| ablative | excrēmentō | excrēmentīs |
| vocative | excrēmentum | excrēmenta |
Related terms
- excrēscō
Descendants
- English: excrement
References
- excrementum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- excrementum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- EXCREMENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “excrementum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.