commentum

Latin

Etymology

From commentus, past participle of comminiscor.

Noun

commentum n (genitive commentī); second declension

1. invention
2. design, scheme
3. fabrication, fiction

   Synonym: mendācium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	commentum	commenta
genitive	commentī	commentōrum
dative	commentō	commentīs
accusative	commentum	commenta
ablative	commentō	commentīs
vocative	commentum	commenta

Related terms

• comminiscor

Descendants

• Friulian: coment
• Italian: commento
• Sicilian: cummentu

References

• “commentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commentum 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)
• commentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
    
  • chimeras: opinionum commenta (N. D. 2. 2. 5)