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).

	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), atramynt, jatramynt (Zagórze)
  • Silesian: atramynt
• Portuguese: atramento
• Spanish: atramento
• English: atrament

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, 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