munimen

Latin

Etymology

From mūniō (“I defend”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [muːˈniː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [muˈniː.men]

Noun

mūnīmen n (genitive mūnīminis); third declension

1. defence, fortification, rampart, enclosure

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	mūnīmen	mūnīmina
genitive	mūnīminis	mūnīminum
dative	mūnīminī	mūnīminibus
accusative	mūnīmen	mūnīmina
ablative	mūnīmine	mūnīminibus
vocative	mūnīmen	mūnīmina

Related terms

• mūniō

References

• “munimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “munimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "munimen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “munimen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.