fermentum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fermentom, equivalent to ferveō +‎ -mentum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw- (“to be hot, boil”). Related to dēfrutum.

Noun

fermentum n (genitive fermentī); second declension

1. fermentation, leavening
2. yeast, ferment
3. anger, passion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fermentum	fermenta
Genitive	fermentī	fermentōrum
Dative	fermentō	fermentīs
Accusative	fermentum	fermenta
Ablative	fermentō	fermentīs
Vocative	fermentum	fermenta

Derived terms

• fermentō

Descendants

• Asturian: furmiento
• Leonese: fermiento
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: formento
  • Portuguese: formento
• Romagnol: forment
• Sardinian: fromentu, fermentu ⇒ fermentarzu
• Spanish: hermiento, jurmiento (Salamanca)

• → Catalan: ferment
• → French: ferment
  • → Russian: фермент (ferment)
• → Galician: fermento
• → Italian: fermento
• → Occitan: ferment
• → Portuguese: fermento
• → Spanish: fermento

References

• “fermentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fermentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fermentum 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)
• fermentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fermentum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume
  , page 467