instrumentum

Latin[edit]

From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) +‎ -mentum.

(Classical) IPA^(key): /in.struːˈmen.tum/, [ĩːs̠t̪ruːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.struˈmen.tum/, [inst̪ruˈmɛn̪t̪um]

īnstrūmentum n (genitive īnstrūmentī); second declension

Catalan: instrument
→ Middle Dutch: instrument
- Dutch: instrument
Old French: instrument
- → Middle English: instrument
  - English: instrument
- French: instrument
Galician: estormento, instrumento (borrowing)
→ Middle High German: instrument
- German: Instrument
Middle Low German: instrument
- German Low German: Instrument
→ Middle Irish: instrumint
- Irish: ionstraim, instrúim
Italian: strumento
Occitan: instrument
Piedmontese: strument
Portuguese: instrumento
Romanian: instrument
→ Russian: инструмент (instrument)
Sicilian: strummentu
Spanish: instrumento (see there for further descendants)

“instrumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“instrumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
instrumentum 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)
instrumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
instrumentum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016