monumentum

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From monēre (“to remind”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

monumentum n (genitive monumentī); second declension

  1. reminder, memorial
  2. monument
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.195:
      haec hominum monumenta patent
      These monuments of men are evident.
  3. tomb, burial place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative monumentum monumenta
genitive monumentī monumentōrum
dative monumentō monumentīs
accusative monumentum monumenta
ablative monumentō monumentīs
vocative monumentum monumenta

Derived terms

Descendants

(From variants monimentum and molimentum)

Borrowings

References

  • “monumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “monumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • monumentum 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)
  • monumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • written records; documents: litterae ac monumenta or simply monumenta
    • to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    • to study historical records, read history: evolvere historias, litterarum (veterum annalium) monumenta
    • ancient history: veterum annalium monumenta
    • to erect a building, a monument: exstruere aedificium, monumentum
  • “monumentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “monumentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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