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==Latin==
==Latin==

===Etymology===
===Etymology===
From {{m|la|vita||life}}, from {{etyl|ine-pro|la}} {{m|ine-pro|*gʷeyh₃-|*gʷeyh₃-to-|to live}} + {{m|ine-pro|*mno-}}.
{{inh+|la|ine-pro|*gʷeyh₃-|*gʷeyh₃-|to live}} + {{m|ine-pro|*-mn̥|*-mnos|agent noun suffix}}, and cognate to {{m|la|vīvō||to live}} and {{m|la|vīta||life}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{la-pronunc|Vitumnus}}
* {{la-IPA|Vītumnus}}


===Proper noun===
===Proper noun===
{{la-noun|Vitumnus||Vitumnī|m|second}}
{{la-proper noun|Vītumnus<2.both>}}


# a minor [[Roman]] god that bestows {{l|la|vita||life}} to a [[fetus]]
# a minor [[Roman]] god that gives [[life]] to a [[child]] in the [[womb]]; a god of [[quickening]]


====Usage notes====
====Usage notes====
* Vitumnus had the epithet {{l|la|vīvificātor||creator of life}} and was associated by Augustine with {{l|la|Sentīnus}}, the giver of [[sentience]].
* Vītumnus had the epithet {{l|la|vīvificātor||life-giver}} and was associated by Augustine with {{l|la|Sentīnus}}, the giver of [[sentience]].

====Declension====
{{la-ndecl|Vītumnus<2.both>}}


====Inflection====
===Further reading===
* {{R:L&S}}
{{la-decl-2nd|Vitumn}}
* {{R:Gaffiot}}


{{C|la|Roman deities}}
[[fr:Vitumnus]]

Latest revision as of 13:58, 24 September 2024

Latin

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (to live) + *-mnos (agent noun suffix), and cognate to vīvō (to live) and vīta (life).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Vītumnus m (genitive Vītumnī); second declension

  1. a minor Roman god that gives life to a child in the womb; a god of quickening

Usage notes

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Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Further reading

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  • Vitumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Vitumnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.