ligamen
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch ligament, from Latin ligāmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈɡamɛn/
- Rhymes: -mɛn, -ɛn, -n
- Hyphenation: li‧ga‧mèn
Noun
ligamèn (plural ligamen-ligamen, first-person possessive ligamenku, second-person possessive ligamenmu, third-person possessive ligamennya)
- (anatomy) ligament
Alternative forms
- liɡamən (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “ligamen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From ligō (“I tie, bind, bandage”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /liˈɡaː.men/, [lʲɪˈɡäːmɛn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈɡa.men/, [liˈɡäːmen]
Noun
ligāmen n (genitive ligāminis); third declension
- a bandage, band, tie
- (Medieval Latin) poultice; bandage with herbal medicine
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ligāmen | ligāmina |
| Genitive | ligāminis | ligāminum |
| Dative | ligāminī | ligāminibus |
| Accusative | ligāmen | ligāmina |
| Ablative | ligāmine | ligāminibus |
| Vocative | ligāmen | ligāmina |
Descendants
- Italian: legame
- Old French: lien, lïen
- Middle French: lien
- French: lien
- → Middle English: lien
- English: lien
- Middle French: lien
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: lligam
- Occitan: ligam
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: liame
- Portuguese: liame
- Sicilian: lijama
References
- “ligamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ligamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ligamen 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)
- ligamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish
Noun
ligamen m (plural ligámenes)
- link; union
Further reading
- “ligamen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014