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Latin
Etymology
From compleō + -mentum.
Noun
complēmentum n (genitive complēmentī); second declension
- complement (that which fills up or completes)
- completion
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “complementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “complementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "complementum", 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)
- complementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.