The corpus record — Latin

magmentum

magmentum · n

that which magnifies

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What it meant

1. magmentum — Lewis & Short

magmentum, i, n.contr. from magimentum, from root mag; cf. mactare and mactus.—In relig. lang.,

I that which magnifies or glorifies, an offering, sacrifice, Inscr. Orell. 2489; 2490; Inscr. Grut. 23, 12; 229, 1; Arn. 7, 24; cf. in preced., Varr. L. L. 5, § 112 Müll.

2. magmentum — Walde–Hofmann

magmentum, -; n. ,Fleischstücke als Zusatz zu den geopferten Eingeweiden" (wie die augmenta Wort der Sakralsprache, s. Wissowa Rel.? 418; seit Varro, ebenso magmentärius „zum m. gehörig“): zu mactus, *magö ,mehre", Suff. nach augmentum (Vanicek 204 unter Verknüpfung mit ai. mahdyati [doch s. unter mactus; beide Möglichkeiten bei Walde-P. II 258). — Nicht zu macellum (Brugmann I? 677) oder zu mäcerö (Meillet-Vendryes … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. magmentum, p. 916]

Where it came from

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