pigmentum

Latin

Etymology

From pingō (“to paint”) +‎ -mentum (“denoting the instrument or result of an action”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [pɪɡˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [piɡˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

pigmentum n (genitive pigmentī); second declension

1. A material for coloring; color, paint, pigment, dye.
2. (figuratively, of style) Ornament, coloring.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pigmentum	pigmenta
Genitive	pigmentī	pigmentōrum
Dative	pigmentō	pigmentīs
Accusative	pigmentum	pigmenta
Ablative	pigmentō	pigmentīs
Vocative	pigmentum	pigmenta

Derived terms

Derived terms

• auripigmentum
• pigmentārius
• pigmentātus
• pigmentōsus

Related terms

• pictilis
• pictor
• pictōrius
• pictūra
• pictūrātus
• pictus

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Old French: piment, piement, piument
    • French: piment
      • → Italian: pimento
  • Old Italian: piumento
  • Old Lombard: piumente
  • Old Occitan: piment, pimenta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: pemento
    • Portuguese: pimenta, pimento
  • Spanish: pimiento
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: pigment
  • → Dutch: pigment
  • → English: pigment
  • → French: pigment
  • → Galician: pigmento
  • → German: Pigment
  • → Italian: pigmento
  • → Portuguese: pigmento
  • → Romanian: pigment
  • → Russian: пигмент (pigment)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pigment
  • → Spanish: pigmento
  • → Turkish: pigment

References

• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pigmentum 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)
• pigmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pigmĕntum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 445