commentum

Latin

Etymology

From commentus, past participle of comminīscor.

Noun

commentum n (genitive commentī); second declension

1. invention
2. design, scheme
3. fabrication, fiction

   Synonym: mendācium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	commentum	commenta
genitive	commentī	commentōrum
dative	commentō	commentīs
accusative	commentum	commenta
ablative	commentō	commentīs
vocative	commentum	commenta

Related terms

• comminīscor

Descendants

• Friulian: coment
• Italian: commento
• Sicilian: cummentu
• → Old Irish: commant
  • Middle Irish: commond
    • Irish: cumann
    • Manx: commyn
    • Scottish Gaelic: comann
• →? Old Welsh: ciman
  • Middle Welsh: kyman
    • Welsh: cyman

References

• “commentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "commentum", 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)
• “commentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
    
  • chimeras: opinionum commenta (N. D. 2. 2. 5)