"-mentum" meaning in Latin

See -mentum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: [ˈmɛn.tũː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈmɛn̪.t̪um] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Derived from the Latin suffix -menta in collective nouns like armenta (“herd, flock”). Latin -menta is from Latin -mentum (singular), from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from the plural Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂ (*-mn̥ + *-teh₂, plural of *-mn̥-to-). Etymology templates: {{der|la|ine-pro|*-mn̥teh₂}} Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂ Head templates: {{head|la|suffix|plural|-menta|cat2=noun-forming suffixes}} -mentum (plural -menta) Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|-mentum<2>}} Forms: -menta [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], -mentum [nominative, singular], -menta [nominative, plural], -mentī [genitive, singular], -mentōrum [genitive, plural], -mentō [dative, singular], -mentīs [dative, plural], -mentum [accusative, singular], -menta [accusative, plural], -mentō [ablative, singular], -mentīs [ablative, plural], -mentum [singular, vocative], -menta [plural, vocative]
  1. instrument, medium, or result of; e.g. monumentum Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--mentum-la-suffix-iDrV1Kp6 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages using catfix, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Balkano-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "-mintu"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: -mintu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: -mintu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "-mânt",
            "3": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: -mânt, -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: -mânt, -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Dalmatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "-mentu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: -mentu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: -mentu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mt",
            "2": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Maltese: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Maltese: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Rhaeto-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frp",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Franco-Provençal: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Franco-Provençal: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: -ment (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Occitan: -ment\nOccitan: -ment",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Occitan: -ment\nOccitan: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Ibero-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "an",
            "2": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Aragonese: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aragonese: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "-mientu"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: -mientu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: -mientu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "-mento",
            "3": "-miento"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: -mento, -miento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: -mento, -miento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Borrowings:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "eu",
            "2": "-mendu",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Basque: -mendu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Basque: -mendu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Scots: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Scots: -ment"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-mn̥teh₂"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Derived from the Latin suffix -menta in collective nouns like armenta (“herd, flock”). Latin -menta is from Latin -mentum (singular), from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from the plural Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂ (*-mn̥ + *-teh₂, plural of *-mn̥-to-).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "suffix",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "-menta",
        "cat2": "noun-forming suffixes"
      },
      "expansion": "-mentum (plural -menta)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-mentum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using catfix",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "instrument, medium, or result of; e.g. monumentum"
      ],
      "id": "en--mentum-la-suffix-iDrV1Kp6",
      "links": [
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ],
        [
          "e.g.",
          "e.g."
        ],
        [
          "monumentum",
          "monumentum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmɛn.tũː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmɛn̪.t̪um]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-mentum"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Balkano-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "-mintu"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: -mintu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: -mintu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "-mânt",
            "3": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: -mânt, -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: -mânt, -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Dalmatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "-mentu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: -mentu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: -mentu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mt",
            "2": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Maltese: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Maltese: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Rhaeto-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frp",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Franco-Provençal: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Franco-Provençal: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: -ment (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pro",
            "2": "-ment<id:nominal>"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Occitan: -ment\nOccitan: -ment",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Occitan: -ment\nOccitan: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Ibero-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "an",
            "2": "-ment"
          },
          "expansion": "Aragonese: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aragonese: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "-mientu"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: -mientu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: -mientu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "-mento"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: -mento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: -mento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "-mento",
            "3": "-miento"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: -mento, -miento",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: -mento, -miento"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Borrowings:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "eu",
            "2": "-mendu",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Basque: -mendu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Basque: -mendu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: -ment"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "-ment",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Scots: -ment",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Scots: -ment"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-mn̥teh₂"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Derived from the Latin suffix -menta in collective nouns like armenta (“herd, flock”). Latin -menta is from Latin -mentum (singular), from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from the plural Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂ (*-mn̥ + *-teh₂, plural of *-mn̥-to-).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-mentum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-menta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "suffix",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "-menta",
        "cat2": "noun-forming suffixes"
      },
      "expansion": "-mentum (plural -menta)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-mentum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin noun-forming suffixes",
        "Latin suffixes",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages using catfix",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "instrument, medium, or result of; e.g. monumentum"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ],
        [
          "e.g.",
          "e.g."
        ],
        [
          "monumentum",
          "monumentum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmɛn.tũː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmɛn̪.t̪um]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-mentum"
}

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