mōmen, ĭnis, n. [for movimen, from moveo].
I Movement, motion : e salso consurgere momine ponti, i. e. from the salt billows , 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, to be of no consequence, of no moment , Arn. 2, 77.—*
III A moment of time, Manil. 3, 675.