-mentum

See also: mentum

Latin

Derived from the Latin suffix -menta in collective nouns like armenta (“herd, flock”). Latin -menta is from Latin -mentum (singular), from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from the plural Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥teh₂ (*-mn̥ + *-teh₂, plural of *-mn̥-to-).^[1]

-mentum (plural -menta)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Balkano-Romance:
- Aromanian: -mintu
- Romanian: -mânt, -ment
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: -mento
- Sicilian: -mentu
- Venetan: -mento
- Maltese: -ment
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: -ment
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: -ment
- Franco-Provençal: -ment
- Old French: -ment (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: -ment
  - Occitan: -ment
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: -ment
- Asturian: -mientu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: -mento
  - Galician: -mento
  - Portuguese: -mento
- Spanish: -mento, -miento
Borrowings:
- → Basque: -mendu
- → Dutch: -ment
- → English: -ment
- → German: -ment
- → Norwegian Bokmål: -ment
- → Scots: -ment

http://etimologias.dechile.net/latin/?Sufijos
Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Grecque by Pierre Chantraine. Paris, 1968.