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Yes. The word flamen is a Scrabble US word. The word flamen is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word flamen is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

FLAMEN,

5-letter words (5 found)

FEMAL,FLAME,FLANE,FLEAM,LEMAN,

4-letter words (23 found)

ALEF,ALME,AMEN,ELAN,FAME,FANE,FEAL,FLAM,FLAN,FLEA,LAME,LANE,LEAF,LEAM,LEAN,MALE,MANE,MEAL,MEAN,MELA,NAME,NEAL,NEMA,

3-letter words (22 found)

ALE,ALF,AME,ANE,EAN,ELF,ELM,FAE,FAN,FEM,FEN,LAM,LEA,MAE,MAL,MAN,MEL,MEN,MNA,NAE,NAM,NEF,

2-letter words (16 found)

AE,AL,AM,AN,EA,EF,EL,EM,EN,FA,FE,LA,MA,ME,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 68 words from flamen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of flamen

flamen

Alternative forms

  • flamin (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfleɪmən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪmən
  • Homophone: flehmen

Noun

flamen (plural flamens or flamines)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) a priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.

Derived terms

  • archflamen
  • flaminical

Translations

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Italic *flāgmen, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag- (“to hit, strike, beat”). Other etymologies point to *bʰleh₂- (no meaning given) or *bʰel- (“to shine, burn”). Traditionally asserted relationships to Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman), Old Norse blót via conjectured *bʰlag-, *bʰlād- present difficulties.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈflaː.men/, [ˈfɫ̪äːmɛn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfla.men/, [ˈfläːmen]

Noun

flāmen m (genitive flāminis, feminine flāmina); third declension

  2. priest, flamen
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • flāminātus
  • flāminius
  • flāminica
Descendants
  • → English: flamen
  • → French: flamine
  • → Portuguese: flâmine

Etymology 2

From flō (“I breathe, blow”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

flāmen n (genitive flāminis); third declension

  2. blast, gust (of wind)
  3. breeze
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Further reading

  • “flamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “flamen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “flamen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Source: wiktionary.org