Latin

Noun

membrum n ‎(genitive membrī); second declension

1. (anatomy) limb of the body; member.
2. (euphemistic) the **** (membrum virīle)
3. a portion, division
4. apartment, room in a house
5. member of the state
6. (Late Latin, Christianity) member of the Body of Christ, member of the church
7. (grammar) clause of a sentence

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• membrāna
• membrātim
• membrō
• membrōsus
• membrum puerīle
• membrum virīle

Descendants

References

• membrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• membrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MEMBRUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “membrum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be affected by disease in every limb; to be paralysed: omnibus membris captum esse