pigmentum

Latin

Etymology

From pingo (“paint”) +‎ -mentum (“denoting the instrument or result of an action”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [pɪɡˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [piɡˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

pigmentum n (genitive pigmentī); second declension

1. A material for coloring; color, paint, pigment, dye.
2. (figuratively, of style) Ornament, coloring.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pigmentum	pigmenta
Genitive	pigmentī	pigmentōrum
Dative	pigmentō	pigmentīs
Accusative	pigmentum	pigmenta
Ablative	pigmentō	pigmentīs
Vocative	pigmentum	pigmenta

Derived terms

Derived terms

• auripigmentum
• pigmentārius

• pigmentātus
• pigmentōsus

Related terms

• pictilis
• pictor
• pictōrius

• pictūra
• pictūrātus
• pictus

Descendants

• Catalan: pigment
• Dutch: pigment
• English: pigment, pimiento
• French: pigment, piment
• Galician: pemento

• Italian: pigmento, pimento
• Portuguese: pigmento, pimenta, pimento
• Romanian: pigment
• Russian: пигмент (pigment)
• Spanish: pigmento, pimiento

References

• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pigmentum 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)
• pigmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.