paramentum

Latin

Etymology

parō (“adorn”) +‎ -mentum

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈmen.tum/, [päräˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

parāmentum n (genitive parāmentī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. ornament
   • 11th century, Frutolf of Michelsberg, “Excerptum de Vita Alexandri Magni”, in Chronica:

     caballus quoque Bucefalus et imperiale paramentum Alexandri tuum sit

     that the horse and imperial ornament of Alexander Bucephalus may also be yours

2. throne, royal state or dignity
3. vestment
4. (in the plural) liturgical paraphernalia

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	parāmentum	parāmenta
genitive	parāmentī	parāmentōrum
dative	parāmentō	parāmentīs
accusative	parāmentum	parāmenta
ablative	parāmentō	parāmentīs
vocative	parāmentum	parāmenta

Descendants

• → Dutch: parament
• → German: Parament
• Italian: paramento
• Old French: parement
  • French: parement
  • → English: parament

References

• paramentum 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “paramentum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill