monument
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial”), from monēre (“to remind”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/, /ˈmɑnjəmənt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: mon‧u‧ment
NounEdit
monument (plural monuments)
- A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
- An important site owned by the community as a whole.
- An exceptional or proud achievement.
- 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
- The line became a monument to his drive and imagination - and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
- An important burial vault or tomb.
- Any grave marker.
- A legal document.
- A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
- A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
- (surveying) A natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
- A surviving record.
- 1896, Auguste Brachet and Paget Toynbee, A Historical Grammar of the French Language (Clarendon Press series)[1], Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
- This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.
- 2018 June 11, Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editor, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK])[2], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15th century
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VerbEdit
monument (third-person singular simple present monuments, present participle monumenting, simple past and past participle monumented)
- (transitive) To mark or memorialize with a monument.
Further readingEdit
- monument in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- monument in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably borrowed from Latin monumentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument m (plural monuments)
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Further readingEdit
- “monument” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “monument”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “monument” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “monument” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument n (singular definite monumentet, plural indefinite monumenter)
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument n (plural monumenten, diminutive monumentje n)
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EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Monument, ultimately from Latin monumentum (“memorial”) (from monēre (“to remind”)).
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NounEdit
monument (genitive monumendi, partitive monumenti)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | monument | monumendid |
genitive | monumendi | monumentide |
partitive | monumenti | monumente / monumentisid |
illative | monumenti / monumendisse | monumentidesse / monumendesse |
inessive | monumendis | monumentides / monumendes |
elative | monumendist | monumentidest / monumendest |
allative | monumendile | monumentidele / monumendele |
adessive | monumendil | monumentidel / monumendel |
ablative | monumendilt | monumentidelt / monumendelt |
translative | monumendiks | monumentideks / monumendeks |
terminative | monumendini | monumentideni |
essive | monumendina | monumentidena |
abessive | monumendita | monumentideta |
comitative | monumendiga | monumentidega |
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument m (plural monuments)
Further readingEdit
- “monument”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
NounEdit
monument m (plural monuments)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
NounEdit
monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument or monumenter, definite plural monumenta or monumentene)
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ReferencesEdit
- “monument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
NounEdit
monument n (definite singular monumentet, indefinite plural monument, definite plural monumenta)
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ReferencesEdit
- “monument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum. Attested from the 13th century.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument m (plural monuments)
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 390.
PiedmonteseEdit
PronunciationEdit
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monument m
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument m inan (diminutive monumencik)
- (sculpture) monument (structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)
- Synonym: pomnik
- monument (exceptional or prideful achievement)
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singular | plural | |
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nominative | monument | monumenty |
genitive | monumentu | monumentów |
dative | monumentowi | monumentom |
accusative | monument | monumenty |
instrumental | monumentem | monumentami |
locative | monumencie | monumentach |
vocative | monumencie | monumenty |
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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French monument, Latin monumentum. Doublet of the inherited mormânt.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument n (plural monumente)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) monument | monumentul | (niște) monumente | monumentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) monument | monumentului | (unor) monumente | monumentelor |
vocative | monumentule | monumentelor |
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SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin monumentum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monument n
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Declension of monument | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | monument | monumentet | monumenter | monumenterna |
Genitive | monuments | monumentets | monumenters | monumenternas |