instrumentum
Latin
Etymology
From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩː.struːˈmɛn.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in.st̪ruˈmɛn̪.t̪um]
Noun
īnstrūmentum n (genitive īnstrūmentī); second declension
- An instrument, tool, utensil
- (collective) supply, provision
- (general) paraphernalia, equipment
- records, documents
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | īnstrūmentum | īnstrūmenta |
| genitive | īnstrūmentī | īnstrūmentōrum |
| dative | īnstrūmentō | īnstrūmentīs |
| accusative | īnstrūmentum | īnstrūmenta |
| ablative | īnstrūmentō | īnstrūmentīs |
| vocative | īnstrūmentum | īnstrūmenta |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: instrument
- → Middle Dutch: instrument
- Dutch: instrument
- Old French: instrument
- → Middle English: instrument
- English: instrument
- French: instrument
- → Middle English: instrument
- Galician: estormento, instrumento (borrowing)
- → Middle High German: instrument
- German: Instrument
- Middle Low German: instrument
- German Low German: Instrument
- → Middle Irish: instrumint
- Irish: ionstraim, instrúim (obsolete)
- Italian: strumento
- Occitan: instrument
- Piedmontese: strument
- Portuguese: instrumento
- Romanian: instrument
- → Russian: инструмент (instrument)
- Sicilian: strummentu
- Spanish: instrumento (see there for further descendants)
References
- “instrumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instrumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "instrumentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- instrumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- instrumentum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016