statumen

Latin

Etymology

From statuō (“to hold up, fix upright”) +‎ -men.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

statūmen n (genitive statūminis); third declension

1. that upon which any thing rests.
2. a support, stay, prop.

   Synonyms: stabilīmen, stabilīmentum, adminiculum, pedāmen, fulcīmen

3. a rib of a ship.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	statūmen	statūmina
genitive	statūminis	statūminum
dative	statūminī	statūminibus
accusative	statūmen	statūmina
ablative	statūmine	statūminibus
vocative	statūmen	statūmina

References

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