excrementum

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From excernō (to separate; discharge) + -mentum.

Noun

excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension

  1. refuse, rubbish
  2. bodily excrement
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative excrēmentum excrēmenta
Genitive excrēmentī excrēmentōrum
Dative excrēmentō excrēmentīs
Accusative excrēmentum excrēmenta
Ablative excrēmentō excrēmentīs
Vocative excrēmentum excrēmenta
Descendants

Etymology 2

From excrēscō (to grow or rise up or out) + -mentum.

Noun

excrēmentum n (genitive excrēmentī); second declension

  1. that which grows out or rises up; an elevation, prominence
  2. (Medieval Latin) increase, surplus
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative excrēmentum excrēmenta
Genitive excrēmentī excrēmentōrum
Dative excrēmentō excrēmentīs
Accusative excrēmentum excrēmenta
Ablative excrēmentō excrēmentīs
Vocative excrēmentum excrēmenta
Descendants

References

  • excrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • excrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • excrementum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • excrementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “excrementum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 389/2
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