commodatum

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin commodātum (“loan”), neuter substantive of commodātus (“borrowed, lent”).

Noun

commodatum (plural commodata)

1. (Roman law, civil law) A gratuitous loan for the temporary use of a thing to be returned after a fixed or determinable time.
2. A contract in which movables are loaned in this way.

Synonyms

• loan for use

Antonyms

• mutuum, loan for consumption

Latin

Participle

commodātum

1. inflection of commodātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “commodatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commodatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “commodatum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “commodatum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin