paramento

English

Etymology

Spanish

Noun

paramento

1. (obsolete) ornament; decoration
   • c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:

     There were cloaks, gowns, cassocks, And other paramentos

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paramento”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Noun

paramento m (plural paramenti)

1. vestment
2. hanging, drapery

Anagrams

• promanate, ramponate, tamponare, tamponerà

Latin

Noun

parāmentō

1. dative/ablative singular of parāmentum

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin parāmentum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.ɾaˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɾɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧men‧to

Noun

paramento m (plural paramentos)

1. ornament, adornment
2. (religion) vestment
3. (religion) liturgical paraphernalia or ornaments
4. (construction) facing, wall

Derived terms

• paramentar

Verb

paramento

1. first-person singular present indicative of paramentar

Spanish

Noun

paramento m (plural paramentos)

1. wall; facing

Further reading

• “paramento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014