mōmen
ĭnis, n.
I.
Movement, motion: e salso consurgere momine ponti, Lucr. 6, 474; so also id. 2, 632, and 4, 179; v. Lachm. (where others read numine); cf. id. 3, 144.—
II.
Weight, momentum; importance, moment (ante- and postclass.): momine parvo moveri, Lucr. 3, 188: nullius mominis esse, Arn. 2, 77.—*
III.
A moment of time, Manil. 3, 675.