supplementum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From suppleō (“fill up; complete; supply”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sup.pleːˈmen.tum/, [s̠ʊpːɫ̪eːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sup.pleˈmen.tum/, [supːleˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
supplēmentum n (genitive supplēmentī); second declension
- something that fills up or makes up the numbers; supplement
- (military) reinforcements
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, […]
- If reinforcements were needed, he should supply them with the legions which Publius Cornelius, propraetor, was in charge of in Sicily, […]
- Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, […]
- supplies
- (military) reinforcements
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | supplēmentum | supplēmenta |
Genitive | supplēmentī | supplēmentōrum |
Dative | supplēmentō | supplēmentīs |
Accusative | supplēmentum | supplēmenta |
Ablative | supplēmentō | supplēmentīs |
Vocative | supplēmentum | supplēmenta |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: suplement
- French: supplément
- Galician: suplemento
- Italian: supplemento
- Portuguese: suplemento
- Spanish: suplemento
References
- “supplementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “supplementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supplementum 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)
- supplementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
- to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere