agmen
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From agō (“do, act”) -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaɡ.men/, [ˈäɡmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈaɡ.men/, [ˈäɡmen]
Noun
[edit]agmen n (genitive agminis); third declension
- a train of something; multitude, host, crowd, flock
- an army, column, troop, band; line of troops
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.82–83:
- [...] ac ventī, velut agmine factō,
quā data porta ruunt et terrās turbine perflant.- [...] And the winds, as if become a [charging] column, whereby given passage rush [forth] and blow ’cross the world in a whirlwind.
(King Aeolus releases the winds like a military force to destroy the Trojan fleet. See: Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
- [...] And the winds, as if become a [charging] column, whereby given passage rush [forth] and blow ’cross the world in a whirlwind.
- [...] ac ventī, velut agmine factō,
- (of water) stream, course, current, motion
- (of an army) procession, march, progress, movement
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | agmen | agmina |
Genitive | agminis | agminum |
Dative | agminī | agminibus |
Accusative | agmen | agmina |
Ablative | agmine | agminibus |
Vocative | agmen | agmina |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “agmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agmen 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)
- agmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
- the vanguard: agmen primum
- the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)
- to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
- to set the army in motion: agmen agere
- to lead the army with forced marches: citatum agmen rapere
- to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere
- to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
- to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
- in two, three columns: agmine duplici, triplici
- the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
- “agmen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “agmen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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