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Latin
Etymology
From pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum (“denoting the instrument or result of an action”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pigmentum n (genitive pigmentī); second declension
- A material for coloring; color, paint, pigment, dye.
- (figuratively, of style) Ornament, coloring.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pigmentum 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)
- pigmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pigmĕntum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 445