atrament

Inherited from Middle English atrament, from Latin ātrāmentum, from ātrāre (“to blacken”), from āter (“black”). First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.tɹə.mɛnt/

atrament (countable and uncountable, plural atraments or atramenta)

1. (archaic) Ink or an inklike substance.
2. (figurative, rare) Any particularly black liquid substance.
   • 1908, Théophile Gautier, “King Candaules”, in Lafcadio Hearn, transl., Stories, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, page 91:

     The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour.

   • 1927, Reginald Wright Kauffman, “Pursuit” (chapter XXVIII), in Blind Man, New York: Duffield & Company, page 268:

     Everything was lost to sight in that ponderous atrament which precedes the dawn.

   • 1994, Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver, The Island of the Day Before, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 158:

     Onyx flashed in her hair, and the delicate fabric that revealed, concealing, the outlines of her face and her body had the same silvery atrament of the stars.

• altrament (eastern and some central dialects)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin alterā mente. Synchronically derivable from atra +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /ˌatɾaˈmen/
• Syllabification: a‧tra‧ment
• Rhymes: -en

atrament

1. otherwise

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

• attrament

Learned borrowing from Latin ātrāmentum.

atrament (plural atraments)

1. ink
2. vitriol

• arnement

• English: atrament

• “atrament, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Learned borrowing from Latin ātrāmentum.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1472.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /atramɛnt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /atramɛnt/

atrament m animacy unattested

1. iron sulfate used for making ink
   • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎^[2], number 50:

     Atramenth atramentum

     [Atrament atramentum]

• Polish: atrament, atramént (Masuria)
• Silesian: atramynt

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “atrament”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• atramént (Masuria)

Inherited from Old Polish atrament.

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• Rhymes: -amɛnt
• Syllabification: a‧tra‧ment

atrament m inan (related adjective atramentowy)

1. ink (fluid used for writing) [from 17th c.]^[1]

   Synonyms: inkaust, (archaic) tusz

2. (Middle Polish, medicine) iron or tin medicinal compound

• atrament in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• atrament in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “atrament”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Danuta Lankiewicz (13.10.2014) “ATRAMENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “atrament”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “atrament”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “atrament”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 69

• IPA^(key): [ˈatrament]

atrament m inan (relational adjective atramentový)

1. ink (the one used for writing with a pen or a quill)

• atramentovo

• “atrament”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025