monstrum

See also: Monstrum

Latin

Etymology

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From moneō (“advise, warn”) +‎ -trum (suffix forming instrument nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmon.strum/, [ˈmõːs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmon.strum/, [ˈmɔnst̪rum]

• Audio (classical):

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Noun

mōnstrum n (genitive mōnstrī); second declension

1. a divine omen indicating misfortune, an evil omen, portent
2. (metonymically) a monster, monstrosity, whether in size or character
3. (figuratively) a thing that evokes fear and wonder

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mōnstrum	mōnstra
Genitive	mōnstrī	mōnstrōrum
Dative	mōnstrō	mōnstrīs
Accusative	mōnstrum	mōnstra
Ablative	mōnstrō	mōnstrīs
Vocative	mōnstrum	mōnstra

Synonyms

• ostentum, prōdigium, portentum

Derived terms

• mōnstrō
• mōnstrōsus/ mōnstruōsus

Descendants

Derived terms

• Albanian: moshtrë, monstër
• Catalan: monstre
• Galician: monstro
• Italian: mostro

• Old French: monstre
  • French: monstre
    • Romanian: monstru
  • Middle English: monstre
    • English: monster
      • German: Monster
      • Japanese: モンスター (monsutā)
      • Korean: 몬스터 (monseuteo)
• Portuguese: monstro
• Spanish: monstruo

References

• “monstrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “monstrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• monstrum 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)
• monstrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
    
  • (ambiguous) marvellous ideas; prodigies: monstra or portenta
    
  • (ambiguous) it is incredible: monstra dicis, narras
    

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒnstrum/
• Hyphenation: mon‧strum

Noun

mònstrum m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нструм)

1. monster

Declension

Declension of monstrum

	singular	plural
nominative	monstrum	monstrumi
genitive	monstruma	monstruma
dative	monstrumu	monstrumima
accusative	monstruma	monstrume
vocative	monstrume	monstrumi
locative	monstrumu	monstrumima
instrumental	monstrumom	monstrumima