documentum
Latin
Alternative forms
- docimentum
Etymology
From the verb doceō (“teach”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɔ.kʊˈmɛn.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [do.kuˈmɛn.tum]
Noun
documentum n (genitive documentī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | documentum | documenta |
| genitive | documentī | documentōrum |
| dative | documentō | documentīs |
| accusative | documentum | documenta |
| ablative | documentō | documentīs |
| vocative | documentum | documenta |
Descendants
- → Catalan: document
- → English: document
- → Irish: doiciméad
- → Dutch: document
- → French: document
- → Galician: documento
- → Hungarian: dokumentum
- → Italian: documento
- → Norman: dotchûment
- → Occitan: document
- → Polish: dokument (learned)
- → Kashubian: dokùment
- → Piedmontese: document
- → Portuguese: documento
- → Russian: документ (dokument)
- → Spanish: documento
- → Hiligaynon: dokumento
- → Welsh: dogfen
- → Yiddish: דאָקומענט (dokument)
References
- “documentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “documentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “documentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
- this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
- documentum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016