salvamentum

Latin

Etymology

From salvō +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sal.u̯aːˈmen.tum/, [s̠äɫ̪u̯äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sal.vaˈmen.tum/, [sälväˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

salvāmentum n (genitive salvāmentī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. salvation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	salvāmentum	salvāmenta
Genitive	salvāmentī	salvāmentōrum
Dative	salvāmentō	salvāmentīs
Accusative	salvāmentum	salvāmenta
Ablative	salvāmentō	salvāmentīs
Vocative	salvāmentum	salvāmenta

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: salvamento
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: sauvement
    • → Middle English: savement, sauvement
      • English: savement (obsolete)
  • Old Occitan: salvament
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: salvamento
  • Spanish: salvamento

References

• “salvamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salvamentum 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)