atramentum

Latin

Etymology

From āter (“black”) +‎ -āmentum.

Noun

ātrāmentum n (genitive ātrāmentī); second declension

1. black liquid
2. ink

   Near-synonym: encaustum

3. blacking

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ātrāmentum	ātrāmenta
Genitive	ātrāmentī	ātrāmentōrum
Dative	ātrāmentō	ātrāmentīs
Accusative	ātrāmentum	ātrāmenta
Ablative	ātrāmentō	ātrāmentīs
Vocative	ātrāmentum	ātrāmenta

Descendants

• French: atramentaire
• Italian: atramento
• Old French: arrement
• → Old Polish: atrament (learned)
  • Polish: atrament, atramént (Masuria)
  • Silesian: atramynt
• Portuguese: atramento
• Spanish: atramento

References

• “atramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “atramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• atramentum 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)
• atramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “atramentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “atramentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin