Latin

Proper noun

Vitumnus m ‎(genitive Vitumnī); second declension

1. a minor Roman god that bestows vita ‎(“life”) to a fetus

Usage notes

• Vitumnus had the epithet vīvificātor ‎(“creator of life”) and was associated by Augustine with Sentīnus, the giver of sentience.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• Vitumnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Vitumnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.