stramen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *strōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *stérh₃mn̥, from the root *sterh₃- (“to spread, scatter, strew”) +‎ *-mn̥ (deverbal abstract noun–forming suffix); equivalent to the root of sternō (“I spread, bestrew”) +‎ -men. Cognate with Sanskrit स्तरिमन् (stariman, “that which is strewn; bedding, bedclothes, bed, couch”), स्तरीमन् (stárīman, “strewing, spreading”) and Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bedding, bedclothes”). For the root, compare English strew, straw and Latin storea, strāges and torus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstraː.men/, [ˈs̠t̪räːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.men/, [ˈst̪räːmen]

Noun

strāmen n (genitive strāminis); third declension

1. litter (straw for bedding)

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	strāmen	strāmina
genitive	strāminis	strāminum
dative	strāminī	strāminibus
accusative	strāmen	strāmina
ablative	strāmine	strāminibus
vocative	strāmen	strāmina

Related terms

• strāmineus

Descendants

• Galician: estrume
• Italian: strame
• Portuguese: estrume

References

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