patrimonium
See also: Patrimonium
Latin
Etymology
From pater (“father”) + -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with mātrimōnium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa.triˈmoː.ni.um/, [pät̪rɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.triˈmo.ni.um/, [pät̪riˈmɔːnium]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
patrimōnium n (genitive patrimōniī or patrimōnī); second declension
- the estate or assets that are passed from father to son, patrimony
- # (Imperial period) the emperor’s private property inherited to his private heirs, as distinguished from the assets bound to the function of the emperor called fiscus and the state-bound assets called aerārium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | patrimōnium | patrimōnia |
| Genitive | patrimōniī patrimōnī1 | patrimōniōrum |
| Dative | patrimōniō | patrimōniīs |
| Accusative | patrimōnium | patrimōnia |
| Ablative | patrimōniō | patrimōniīs |
| Vocative | patrimōnium | patrimōnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Coordinate terms
- fiscus (“the assets bound to the function of the emperor”)
- aerārium (“the state treasury”)
Descendants
- Catalan: patrimoni
- English: patrimony
- French: patrimoine
- Galician: patrimonio
- German: Patrimonium
- Italian: patrimonio
- Dutch: patrimonium
- Portuguese: património, patrimônio; patrimonio
- Romanian: patrimoniu
- Spanish: patrimonio
References
- “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- patrimonium 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)
- patrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium
- to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium