antepagmentum

antepagmentum (plural antepagmenta)

1. (architecture) In ancient architecture, a doorpost, or garnishing in a post or door, wrought in stone or timber, or lintel of a window.

   Synonym: antepagment

• antipagmentum

ante- +‎ pangō (“fasten”) +‎ -mentum

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [an.tɛ.paɡˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪.t̪e.paɡˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

antepagmentum n (genitive antepagmentī); second declension

1. The entire chambranle, i.e. the door case, or window frame.
2. (architecture, usually in the plural) In ancient architecture, doorposts, or garnishings in posts or doors, wrought in stone or timber, or lintels of a window.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• pagmentum
• pangō

• “antepagmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antepagmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Antepagmenta, Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (folio, 2 vols.), Ephraim Chambers. London 1728, p. 106.
• ANTEPAGMENTA, Ancient Library, p. 98