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Latin
Etymology
Post-Classical, from Pergamēnus (Pergamum), a city in Asia Minor renown for its library.
Pronunciation
Noun
pergamēnum n (genitive pergamēnī); second declension
- parchment
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- pergamenum 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)
- “pergamenum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers