aerumna

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Two explanations have been proposed: as a loan from Greek αἰρομένη (airoménē), and as having been borrowed from an Etruscan source; de Vaan (2008) points out that connection with αἰρομένη (airoménē) – the feminine middle/passive participle of αἴρω (aírō), in turn the contracted form of ἀείρω (aeírō) – is problematic, as there is no example in Greek of the use of the feminine form of this participle as a noun meaning "burden"; and that an Etruscan etymology is impossible to prove.[1]

Noun

aerumna f (genitive aerumnae); first declension

  1. need, want
  2. trouble, toil, hardship
  3. distress, tribulation, calamity

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aerumna aerumnae
Genitive aerumnae aerumnārum
Dative aerumnae aerumnīs
Accusative aerumnam aerumnās
Ablative aerumnā aerumnīs
Vocative aerumna aerumnae

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • “aerumna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aerumna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aerumna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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