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donum

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See also: donům

English

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Noun

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donum (plural donums)

  1. Alternative form of dunam

See also

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *dōnom, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom, from *deh₃-. Cognate to Sanskrit दान (dā́na).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dōnum n (genitive dōnī); second declension

  1. gift, present
    Synonyms: datum, pretium, praemium, datiō
  2. offering, sacrifice
    Synonym: oblātiō

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dōnum dōna
genitive dōnī dōnōrum
dative dōnō dōnīs
accusative dōnum dōna
ablative dōnō dōnīs
vocative dōnum dōna
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Descendants

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  • Italian: dono
  • Occitano-Romance
  • Old French: don, dun
    • French: don
    • Middle English: done
  • West Iberian

References

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  • donum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • donum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • donum 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)
  • donum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • prerogative, privilege: ius praecipuum, beneficium, donum, also immunitas c. Gen.