documentum

Latin

Alternative forms

• docimentum

Etymology

From the verb doceō (“teach”) +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔ.kʊˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪o.kuˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

Noun

documentum n (genitive documentī); second declension

1. lesson
2. instruction
3. warning

   Synonyms: exemplum, monitus

4. (Medieval Latin) document

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	documentum	documenta
genitive	documentī	documentōrum
dative	documentō	documentīs
accusative	documentum	documenta
ablative	documentō	documentīs
vocative	documentum	documenta

Descendants

• → Catalan: document
• → English: document
  • → Irish: doiciméad
• → Dutch: document
  • Afrikaans: dokument
  • → Indonesian: dokumen
• → French: document
  • → Romanian: document
  • → Turkish: doküman
• → Galician: documento
• → Hungarian: dokumentum
• → Italian: documento
• → Norman: dotchûment
• → Occitan: document
• → Polish: dokument (learned)
  • → Kashubian: dokùment
• → Piedmontese: document
• → Portuguese: documento
• → Russian: документ (dokument)
• → Spanish: documento
  • → Hiligaynon: dokumento
• → Welsh: dogfen
• → Yiddish: דאָקומענט (dokument)

References

• “documentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “documentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “documentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
    
• documentum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016