mendum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”), which de Vaan speculates to be derived from the root *men- (“to think”), with original sense "sign, mark". Cognates include Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”), mind (“sign”), Welsh man (“place”), Hittite [script needed] (mant-, “something harming”).[1]
Noun
mendum n (genitive mendī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mendum | menda |
| genitive | mendī | mendōrum |
| dative | mendō | mendīs |
| accusative | mendum | menda |
| ablative | mendō | mendīs |
| vocative | mendum | menda |
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mendum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 372
Further reading
- “mendum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mendum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "mendum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “mendum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)
- a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)