supplementum

Latin

Alternative forms

supp. (abbreviation)
subplēmentum

Etymology

From suppleō (“fill up; complete; supply”) +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊp.pɫeːˈmɛn.tũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sup.pleˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

Noun

supplēmentum n (genitive supplēmentī); second declension

something that fills up or makes up the numbers; supplement
1. (military) reinforcements
  - 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
    Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, […]
    If reinforcements were needed, he should supply them with the legions which Publius Cornelius, propraetor, was in charge of in Sicily, […]
2. supplies

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	supplēmentum	supplēmenta
genitive	supplēmentī	supplēmentōrum
dative	supplēmentō	supplēmentīs
accusative	supplēmentum	supplēmenta
ablative	supplēmentō	supplēmentīs
vocative	supplēmentum	supplēmenta

Related terms

suppleō
supplētōrium

Descendants

Catalan: suplement
French: supplément
Galician: suplemento
Italian: supplemento
Portuguese: suplemento
Romanian: supliment
Spanish: suplemento

References

“supplementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“supplementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"supplementum", 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)
supplementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere