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Latin
Etymology
From āter (“black”) + -āmentum.
Noun
ātrāmentum n (genitive ātrāmentī); second declension
- black liquid
- ink
- Near-synonym: encaustum
- blacking
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “atramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “atramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- atramentum 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)
- atramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “atramentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “atramentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin