different between flamed vs flamen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fle?md/

Verb

flamed

1. simple past tense and past participle of flame

Adjective

flamed (comparative more flamed, superlative most flamed)

1. Cooked or seared over open flames.
2. Having an undulating pattern of wood grain that resembles flames.

Anagrams

• malfed

English

Alternative forms

• flamin (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fle?m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n
• Homophone: flehmen

Noun

flamen (plural flamens or flamines)

1. (historical) a priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.

Derived terms

• archflamen

Translations

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Italic *fl?gmen, from Proto-Indo-European *b?lag- (“to hit, strike, beat”). Other etymologies point to *bhleh?- (no meaning given), or *bhlg- (“to shine, burn”). Traditionally asserted relationships to Sanskrit ???????? (bráhman), Old Norse blót via conjectured *b?lag-, *b?l?d- present difficulties.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fla?.men/, [?f??ä?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fla.men/, [?fl??m?n]

Noun

fl?men m (genitive fl?minis, feminine fl?mina); third declension

2. priest, flamen

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fl?min?tus
• fl?minius
• fl?minica

Descendants

• ? English: flamen
• ? French: flamine
• ? Portuguese: flâmine

Etymology 2

From fl? (“I breathe, blow”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

fl?men n (genitive fl?minis); third declension

2. blast, gust (of wind)
3. breeze

Declension

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

Further reading

• flamen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flamen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• flamen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flamen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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