sicilimentum

From siciliō (“to mow (a meadow)”) +‎ -mentum (suffix used to form nouns denoting the result of an action).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪ.kɪ.liːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [si.t͡ʃi.liˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

sicilīmentum n (genitive sicilīmentī); second declension

1. (hapax legomenon, in the plural) clippings cut when mowing a meadow
   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura 5.8:

     Circum oleas autumnitate ablaqueato et stercus addito. Frondem populneam, ulmeam, querneam caedito per tempus: eam condito non peraridam, pabulum ovibus. Item faenum cordum, sicilimenta de prato, ea arida condito.

     In the autumn dig trenches around the olive trees and add manure to them. In good time, cut poplar, elm, and oak leaves: store them not fully dry, as food for sheep. Also store dry the second crop of hay and the cuttings from the meadow.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• sicilimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Cressman, Edmund D. (1915) “The Semantics of -mentum, -bulum, and -culum”, in Bulletin of the University of Kansas Humanistic Studies, volume 1, number 4, page 12 [ 276