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Latin
Etymology
From pater (“father”) + -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with mātrimōnium.
Pronunciation
Noun
patrimōnium n (genitive patrimōniī or patrimōnī); second declension
- the estate or assets that are passed from father to son, patrimony
- (Imperial period) the emperor’s private property inherited to his private heirs, as distinguished from the assets bound to the function of the emperor called fiscus and the state-bound assets called aerārium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Coordinate terms
- fiscus (“the assets bound to the function of the emperor”)
- aerārium (“the state treasury”)
Descendants
References
- “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patrimonium 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)
- patrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium