ligamentum

Latin

Etymology

From ligō (“tie, bind”) +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li.ɡaːˈmen.tum/, [lʲɪɡäːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.ɡaˈmen.tum/, [liɡäˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

ligāmentum n (genitive ligāmentī); second declension

1. bandage
2. ligament

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ligāmentum	ligāmenta
Genitive	ligāmentī	ligāmentōrum
Dative	ligāmentō	ligāmentīs
Accusative	ligāmentum	ligāmenta
Ablative	ligāmentō	ligāmentīs
Vocative	ligāmentum	ligāmenta

Related terms

• ligāmen
• ligō

Descendants

• Aromanian: ligãmintu
• Catalan: lligament
• English: ligament (borrowing)
• French: ligament (borrowing), liement
• Friulian: leament
• Italian: legamento
• Portuguese: ligamento (borrowing)
• Romanian: legământ
• Russian: лигамент (ligament) (borrowing)
• Spanish: ligamento (borrowing)

References

• “ligamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ligamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ligamentum 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)
• ligamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.