-mentum

See also: mentum

Latin

From Proto-Italic *-məntom, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom, extended from *-mn̥.^[1] Compare -men.

-mentum (plural -menta)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Balkano-Romance:
- Aromanian: -mintu
- Romanian: -mânt, -ment
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: -mento
- Sicilian: -mentu
- Venetan: -mento
- Maltese: -ment
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: -ment
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: -ment
- Franco-Provençal: -ment
- Old French: -ment (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: -ment
  - Occitan: -ment
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: -ment
- Old Leonese: -mientro
  - Asturian: -mientu
  - Mirandese: -miento
- Old Galician-Portuguese: -mento, -amento, -emento
  - Fala: -mento
  - Galician: -mento, -amento, -emento, -imento
  - Portuguese: -mento, -amento, -imento
- Spanish: -mento, -miento
Borrowings:
- → Basque: -mendu
- → Dutch: -ment
- → English: -ment
- → German: -ment
- → Norwegian Bokmål: -ment
- → Scots: -ment

^ Vine, Brent (2017–2018), “Chapter VIII: Italic”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The morphology of Italic, page 780

http://etimologias.dechile.net/latin/?Sufijos
Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Grecque by Pierre Chantraine. Paris, 1968.