talentum
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “a weight; talent”), from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂ent-, from *telh₂-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /taˈlen.tum/, [t̪äˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /taˈlen.tum/, [t̪äˈlɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
talentum n (genitive talentī); second declension
- A Grecian weight, which contained sixty minae or half a hundredweight.
- A talent or sum of money; usually the Attic talent (sometimes with magnum).
- Vīgintī talentiīs ūnam ōrātiōnem Īsocratēs vēndidit.
- Isocrates sold one oration for twenty talents.
- (New Latin) A marked natural skill or ability
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | talentum | talenta |
| Genitive | talentī | talentōrum |
| Dative | talentō | talentīs |
| Accusative | talentum | talenta |
| Ablative | talentō | talentīs |
| Vocative | talentum | talenta |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “talentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “talentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- talentum 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)
- talentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “talentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “talentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin