patrimonium

See also: Patrimonium

Latin

Etymology

From pater (“father”) +‎ -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with mātrimōnium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈmoː.ni.um/, [pät̪rɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈmo.ni.um/, [pät̪riˈmɔːnium]

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Noun

patrimōnium n (genitive patrimōniī or patrimōnī); second declension

1. the estate or assets that are passed from father to son, patrimony

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patrimōnium	patrimōnia
Genitive	patrimōniī patrimōnī1	patrimōniōrum
Dative	patrimōniō	patrimōniīs
Accusative	patrimōnium	patrimōnia
Ablative	patrimōniō	patrimōniīs
Vocative	patrimōnium	patrimōnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Coordinate terms

• fiscus (“the assets bound to the function of the emperor”)
• aerārium (“the state treasury”)

Descendants

• Catalan: patrimoni
• English: patrimony
• French: patrimoine
• Galician: patrimonio
• German: Patrimonium

• Italian: patrimonio
• Dutch: patrimonium
• Portuguese: património, patrimônio
• Spanish: patrimonio

References

• “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patrimonium 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)
• patrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium