caementum
See also: cæmentum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kaidmentom. Equivalent to caedō + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯ˈmɛn.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈmɛn̪.t̪um]
Noun
caementum n (genitive caementī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | caementum | caementa |
| genitive | caementī | caementōrum |
| dative | caementō | caementīs |
| accusative | caementum | caementa |
| ablative | caementō | caementīs |
| vocative | caementum | caementa |
Derived terms
- caementārius
- caementicius
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: ciment
- Occitan: ciment
- Old French: ciment
- Gallo-Italic:
- Lombard: ciment
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
Unsorted borrowings:
- → Amharic: ሲሚንቶ (siminto)
- → Azerbaijani: sement
- → Basque: zemento, zementu
- → Belarusian: цэме́нт (cemjént)
- → Bengali: সিমেন্ট (śimenṭo)
- → Bulgarian: циме́нт (cimént)
- → Central Kurdish: چمنتۆ (çminto)
- → Chichewa: simenti
- → Chuvash: цемент (tsement)
- → Czech: cement
- → Danish: cement
- → Egyptian Arabic: اسمنت (esmant, asmant)
- → Erzya: цемент (cement)
- → Estonian: tsement
- → Faroese: sement
- → Finnish: sementti
- → Hungarian: cement
- → Icelandic: sement
- → Ingrian: tsementta
- → Kazakh: цемент (sement), cement
- → Kumyk: цемент (tsement)
- → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
- → Kyrgyz: цемент (tsement)
- → Latvian: cements
- → Lezgi: цемент (cement)
- → Lindu: sime
- → Lithuanian: cementas
- → Norwegian: sement
- → Ossetian: цемент (cement)
- → Persian: سیمان (simân)
- → Plautdietsch: Zemment
- → Polish: cement
- → Samogitian: cements
- → Serbo-Croatian: цемент
- → Sinhalese: සිමෙන්ති (simenti)
- → Slovak: cement
- → Slovene: cement
- → Swedish: cement
- → Tajik: семент (sement)
- → Tamil: சிமிட்டி (cimiṭṭi)
- → Tatar: cement
- → Turkmen: sement
- → Ukrainian: цеме́нт (cemént)
- → Urdu: سیمنٹ (sīmeṇṭ)
- → Uzbek: цемент, tsement, sement
- → West Frisian: semint
- → Yakut: цемент (tsement)
References
- “caementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “caementum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caementum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin