mendum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”), same source as Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

mendum n (genitive mendī); second declension

  1. fault, error, blunder (of writing)
  2. blemish, defect (of the body)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative mendum menda
genitive mendī mendōrum
dative mendō mendīs
accusative mendum menda
ablative mendō mendīs
vocative mendum menda

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References

  • “mendum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mendum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "mendum", 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)
  • mendum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)
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