monumentum
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From monēre (“to remind”) + -mentum (noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /mo.nuˈmen.tum/, [mɔnʊˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mo.nuˈmen.tum/, [monuˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
monumentum n (genitive monumentī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | monumentum | monumenta |
Genitive | monumentī | monumentōrum |
Dative | monumentō | monumentīs |
Accusative | monumentum | monumenta |
Ablative | monumentō | monumentīs |
Vocative | monumentum | monumenta |
Derived terms
Descendants
(From variants monimentum and molimentum)
- Balkan Romance:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings
- → Asturian: monumentu
- → Catalan: monument
- → English: monument
- → French: monument
- → Galician: monumento
- → Italian: monumento, munumento
- → Norman: monûment
- → Occitan: monument
- → Old French: monument
- → Portuguese: monumento
- → Romanian: monument
- → Russian: монумент (monument)
- → Sicilian: munumentu
- → Spanish: monumento
- → Welsh: mynwent
References
- “monumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “monumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- monumentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- monumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- written records; documents: litterae ac monumenta or simply monumenta
- to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
- to study historical records, read history: evolvere historias, litterarum (veterum annalium) monumenta
- ancient history: veterum annalium monumenta
- to erect a building, a monument: exstruere aedificium, monumentum
- written records; documents: litterae ac monumenta or simply monumenta
- “monumentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “monumentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin