pigmentum

Equivalent to pingō (“to paint”) +‎ -mentum (suffix denoting the instrument or result of an action), ultimately from the root of Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [piːɡˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [piɡˈmɛn.tum]
• The spelling ⟨PꟾGMENT-⟩ with long i is attested inscriptionally.^[1]

pīgmentum n (genitive pīgmentī); second declension

1. A material for coloring; color, paint, pigment, dye.
2. (figuratively, of style) Ornament, coloring.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pigmentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pigmentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pigmĕntum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 445