tabum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognates include Latin tābēs (“a wasting away, disease”), Sanskrit तोय (toya, “water”), Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”), τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, swamp”), Old English þawian and English thaw.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtaː.bum/, [ˈtaː.bũ]

Noun

tābum n (genitive tābī); second declension

  1. gore or similar putrid, viscous fluid

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tābum tāba
Genitive tābī tābōrum
Dative tābō tābīs
Accusative tābum tāba
Ablative tābō tābīs
Vocative tābum tāba

References
  • tabum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tabum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tabum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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