donum
See also: donům
English
Noun
donum (plural donums)
- Alternative form of dunam
See also
- regium donum (etymologically unrelated)
Latin
Alternative forms
- dōnom (Early Latin)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dōnom, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom, from *deh₃-. Cognate to Sanskrit दान (dā́nam).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdoː.num/, [ˈd̪oːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.num/, [ˈd̪ɔːnum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
dōnum n (genitive dōnī); second declension
- gift, present
- Synonyms: datum, pretium, praemium, datiō
- from the Aeneid (II, 49) by Virgil
- Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans even if they are bearing gifts.
- Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.377-378:
- flōreat ut tōtō carmen Nāsōnis in aevō,
sparge, precor, dōnīs pectora nostra tuīs.- So that the song of Naso may flourish in every age,
sprinkle, I pray, our hearts with your gifts!
(Just as Flora (mythology) blooms eternal, Ovid asks the goddess to ensure that his poetry delights his readers – “our hearts” – forever.)
- So that the song of Naso may flourish in every age,
- flōreat ut tōtō carmen Nāsōnis in aevō,
- offering, sacrifice
- Synonym: oblātiō
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dōnum | dōna |
| Genitive | dōnī | dōnōrum |
| Dative | dōnō | dōnīs |
| Accusative | dōnum | dōna |
| Ablative | dōnō | dōnīs |
| Vocative | dōnum | dōna |
Related terms
- dō
- dōnātiō
- dōnātīvum
- dōnō
Descendants
- Italian: dono
- Occitano-Romance
- Catalan: do
- Occitan: don
- Old French: don, dun
- French: don
- → Middle English: done
- West Iberian
- Old Portuguese: don, dõo
- Galician: doa
- Portuguese: dom
- Spanish: don
- Old Portuguese: don, dõo
References
- “donum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “donum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- donum 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)
- donum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- prerogative, privilege: ius praecipuum, beneficium, donum, also immunitas c. Gen.
- prerogative, privilege: ius praecipuum, beneficium, donum, also immunitas c. Gen.