pavimentum

Latin

Etymology

From paviō (“beat down, tread”) +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.wiːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.viˈmɛn.tum]

Noun

pavīmentum n (genitive pavīmentī); second declension

1. a floor composed of small stones beaten down

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pavīmentum	pavīmenta
genitive	pavīmentī	pavīmentōrum
dative	pavīmentō	pavīmentīs
accusative	pavīmentum	pavīmenta
ablative	pavīmentō	pavīmentīs
vocative	pavīmentum	pavīmenta

Derived terms

• pavīmentārius
• pavīmentō

Related terms

• paviō

Descendants

Through Vulgar Latin paumentum:

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: pamentu, pomentu (Logudorese)
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: pimintu
  • Istro-Romanian: pemint
  • Megleno-Romanian: pimint
  • Romanian: pământ
• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: palmento, palmiento
    • Italian: palmento
  • Sicilian: parmentu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: palment

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: paviment
• → Esperanto: pavimo
• → Galician: pavimento
• → Hungarian: pádimentum
• → Interlingua: pavimento
• → Italian: pavimento
  • → Ido: pavimento
• → Old French: pavement
  • French: pavement
  • → Middle English: pament, pauement, pawment, pavment
    • English: pavement
    • → Welsh: palmant, palment, paement
• → Portuguese: pavimento
• → Romanian: paviment
• → Spanish: pavimento

References

• “pavimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pavimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pavimentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pavimentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pavimentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin