mendum

Latin

Alternative forms

• menda

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”), which de Vaan speculates to be derived from the root *men- (“to think”), with original sense "sign, mark". Cognates include Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”), mind (“sign”), Welsh man (“place”), Hittite [script needed] (mant-, “something harming”).

Noun

mendum n (genitive mendī); second declension

1. fault, error, blunder (of writing)
2. blemish, defect (of the body)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mendum	menda
genitive	mendī	mendōrum
dative	mendō	mendīs
accusative	mendum	menda
ablative	mendō	mendīs
vocative	mendum	menda

Derived terms

• ēmendō
• mendāx
• mendīcus
• mendōsus
• mendum typographicus (“typographical error”, w)

See also

• menda

Further reading

• “mendum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mendum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mendum", 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)
• “mendum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)