patrimonium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From pater (father) +‎ -mōnium (obligation). Compare with mātrimōnium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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patrimōnium n (genitive patrimōniī or patrimōnī); second declension

  1. the estate or assets that are passed from father to son, patrimony
    1. (Imperial period) the emperor’s private property inherited to his private heirs, as distinguished from the assets bound to the function of the emperor called fiscus and the state-bound assets called aerārium

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative patrimōnium patrimōnia
Genitive patrimōniī
patrimōnī1
patrimōniōrum
Dative patrimōniō patrimōniīs
Accusative patrimōnium patrimōnia
Ablative patrimōniō patrimōniīs
Vocative patrimōnium patrimōnia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Coordinate terms

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  • fiscus (the assets bound to the function of the emperor)
  • aerārium (the state treasury)

Descendants

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References

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  • patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • patrimonium 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)
  • patrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium