pigmentum
Latin
Etymology
From pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum (“denoting the instrument or result of an action”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [pɪɡˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [piɡˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
pigmentum n (genitive pigmentī); second declension
- A material for coloring; color, paint, pigment, dye.
- (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
- Inherited:
- Old French: piment, piement, piument
- French: piment
- → Italian: pimento
- French: piment
- Old Italian: piumento
- Old Lombard: piumente
- Old Occitan: piment, pimenta
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: pemento
- Portuguese: pimenta, pimento
- Spanish: pimiento
- Old French: piment, piement, piument
- Borrowed:
- → Catalan: pigment
- → Dutch: pigment
- → English: pigment
- → French: pigment
- → Galician: pigmento
- → German: Pigment
- → Italian: pigmento
- → Portuguese: pigmento
- → Romanian: pigment
- → Russian: пигмент (pigment)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pigment
- → Spanish: pigmento
- → Turkish: pigment
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
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pigmĕntum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 445