amuletum

Of uncertain origin. Watkins suggests a derivation from amylum (“starch”) as an original meaning of a medicine containing starch. Also compare amolior (“I remove from, I repel”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.muˈleː.tum/, [a.mʊˈɫeː.tũ]

amulētum n (genitive amulētī); second declension

1. an amulet

Second declension.

• Catalan: amulet
• English: amulet
• German: Amulett
• Portuguese: amuleto
• Russian: амуле́т (amulét)
• Spanish: amuleto

• amuletum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amuletum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• amuletum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amuletum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• amuletum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.