munimentum
Latin
Etymology
From mūniō (“to build a wall around; fortify, protect, defend; shelter”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [muː.niːˈmɛn.tũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [mu.niˈmɛn̪.t̪um]
Noun
mūnīmentum n (genitive mūnīmentī); second declension
- (military) A defence or defense, fortification, protection; intrenchment; rampart, bulwark; fortress.
- (figuratively) A shelter, defence, protection; safeguard.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mūnīmentum | mūnīmenta |
| genitive | mūnīmentī | mūnīmentōrum |
| dative | mūnīmentō | mūnīmentīs |
| accusative | mūnīmentum | mūnīmenta |
| ablative | mūnīmentō | mūnīmentīs |
| vocative | mūnīmentum | mūnīmenta |
Synonyms
- (fortress): castellum, pugnāculum
- (protection): praesidium, tuitiō, munitio, tūtāculum, tūtāmen, tūtāmentum
- (rampart): prōpugnāculum, vallum
Related terms
Descendants
- English: muniment
References
- “munimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “munimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "munimentum", 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)
- munimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.