noun · neuterthird declension
moderāmen
moderāmen n (genitive moderāminis)
Classical[mɔ.dɛˈraː.mɛn]Ecclesiastical[mo.deˈraː.men]
Meaning
- a means of controlling
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
temperātiō, modusmoderāmen -inis (n) — in IVLIANVS III: Persia, ch. 15
ars regendīmoderāmen -inis (n) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 5
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | moderāmen | moderāmina |
| genitive | moderāminis | moderāminum |
| dative | moderāminī | moderāminibus |
| accusative | moderāmen | moderāmina |
| ablative | moderāmine | moderāminibus |
| vocative | moderāmen | moderāmina |
mŏdĕrāmen, ĭnis, n. id.,
I. a means of managing or governing, e. g. a rudder, helm (poet. and in post-class. prose).
I. Lit.
B. Management, direction, control:
equorum, Ov. M. 2, 48.—II. Trop.: rerum, the helm, i. e. the management of affairs, the government of the state, Ov. M. 6, 677; also, a means of moderating, mitigating, controlling: verum serenitas nostra certum moderamen invenit, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 64.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
moderāmen inis, n
moderor, a means of managing, rudder, helm : Innixus moderamine navis, O.— Management, control : equorum, O.— Fig.: rerum, the helm of the state , O.
Origins
Latin *-osder.? Latin moderor Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin moderāmen From moderor + -men.