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Latin
Etymology
Neuter substantivation of dōnō + -īvus.
Pronunciation
Noun
dōnātīvum n (genitive dōnātīvī); second declension
- financial gratuity given to Roman soldiers at the accession of the Emperor, later than Augustus
- (rare) financial gratuity given to Roman soldiers on occasion of a triumph in the Republican era
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) gift
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “donativum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “donativum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- donativum 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)
- donativum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “donativum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “donativum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin