monumentum

Latin

Alternative forms

• monimentum

Etymology

From monēre (“to remind”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mo.nuˈmen.tum/, [mɔnʊˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mo.nuˈmen.tum/, [monuˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

monumentum n (genitive monumentī); second declension

1. reminder, memorial
2. monument
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.195:

     haec hominum monumenta patent

     These monuments of men are evident.

3. tomb, burial place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	monumentum	monumenta
Genitive	monumentī	monumentōrum
Dative	monumentō	monumentīs
Accusative	monumentum	monumenta
Ablative	monumentō	monumentīs
Vocative	monumentum	monumenta

Derived terms

• monumentālis

Descendants

(From variants monimentum and molimentum)

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: murmintu, mãrmintu
  • Megleno-Romanian: murmint
  • Romanian: mormânt
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: moniment, munument
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mõimento
    • Galician: moimento ⇒ Moimenta
    • Portuguese: moimento ⇒ Moimenta
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: molimentu, morimentu, molumentu, mulimentu, murimentu

Borrowings

• → Asturian: monumentu
• → Catalan: monument
• → English: monument
• → French: monument
• → Galician: monumento
• → Italian: monumento, munumento
• → Norman: monûment
• → Occitan: monument
• → Old French: monument
• → Portuguese: monumento
• → Romanian: monument
• → Russian: монумент (monument)
• → Sicilian: munumentu
• → Spanish: monumento
• → Welsh: mynwent

References

• “monumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “monumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• monumentum 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)
• monumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • written records; documents: litterae ac monumenta or simply monumenta
    
  • to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    
  • to study historical records, read history: evolvere historias, litterarum (veterum annalium) monumenta
    
  • ancient history: veterum annalium monumenta
    
  • to erect a building, a monument: exstruere aedificium, monumentum
    
• “monumentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “monumentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin