Word Origin Summary

-mentum is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *-mn̥teh₂Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• pinsamiant

  Dalmatian · derived from

• parlamentti

  Finnish · borrowed from

• -ment

  Scots · inherited from

• machicolation

  English · derived from

• ipalamente

  Xhosa · borrowed from

• ပါလီမန်

  Burmese · borrowed from

• -mento

  Italian · inherited from

• annulment

  English · derived from

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