caementum

See also: cæmentum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaidmentom. Equivalent to caedō +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kae̯ˈmen.tum/, [käe̯ˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈmen.tum/, [t͡ʃeˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

caementum n (genitive caementī); second declension

1. rough stone from the quarry
2. chips of marble
3. cement; mortar

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caementum	caementa
Genitive	caementī	caementōrum
Dative	caementō	caementīs
Accusative	caementum	caementa
Ablative	caementō	caementīs
Vocative	caementum	caementa

Derived terms

• caementārius
• caementicius

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: ciment
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: cimento
  • → Italian: cemento (learned)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: چمنتو (çemento)
      • Turkish: çimento
        • → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
      • → Albanian: çimento
      • → Armenian: չիմէնթօ (čʻimēntʻō), չմանթո (čʻmantʻo)
      • → Greek: τσιμέντο (tsiménto)
  • Sicilian: cimentu
• Old French: ciment
  • French: ciment (see there for further descendants)
    • Haitian Creole: siman
  • Norman: chînment
  • → Middle Dutch:
    • Dutch: cement
      • Afrikaans: sement
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: samenti
      • → Caribbean Javanese: semèn
      • → Indonesian: semen
      • → Papiamentu: semènt, samènt
      • → West Frisian: semint
    • Limburgish: semènt
  • → Middle English: syment, cement, cemente, cyment, sement, siment, symend, symonde
    • English: cement (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: siment, syment, symond, cement
  • → Middle High German: zīment, zīmente, cēment
    • German: Zement (see there for further descendants)
    • Vilamovian: ciment
    • Yiddish: צעמענט (tsement)
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: ciment
  • Occitan: ciment
• West Iberian
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: cimento, ciment
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cimento
    • Galician: cimento
    • Portuguese: cimento
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: chimento
    • Spanish: cimiento
• → English: cementum
• → French: cément
• → Galician: cemento
• → Italian: cemento
  • → Ottoman Turkish: چمنتو (çemento)
    • Turkish: çimento
      • → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
    • → Albanian: çimento
    • → Armenian: չիմէնթօ (čʻimēntʻō), չմանթո (čʻmantʻo)
    • → Greek: τσιμέντο (tsiménto)
• → Portuguese: cemento
• → Spanish: cemento (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted borrowings

• → Amharic: ሲሚንቶ (siminto)
• → Azerbaijani: sement
• → Basque: zemento, zementu
• → Belarusian: цэме́нт (cemjént)
• → Bengali: সিমেন্ট (śimenṭo)
• → Bulgarian: циме́нт (cimént)
• → Central Kurdish: چمنتۆ (çminto)
• → Chichewa: simenti
• → Chuvash: цемент (tsement)
• → Czech: cement
• → Danish: cement
• → Egyptian Arabic: اسمنت (esmant, asmant)
• → Erzya: цемент (ćement)
• → Estonian: tsement
• → Faroese: sement
• → Finnish: sementti
• → Hungarian: cement
• → Icelandic: sement
• → Ingrian: tsementta
• → Kazakh: цемент (sement), cement
• → Kumyk: цемент (tsement)
• → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
• → Kyrgyz: цемент (tsement)
• → Latvian: cements
• → Lezgi: цемент (cement)
• → Lindu: sime
• → Lithuanian: cementas
• → Norwegian: sement
• → Ossetian: цемент (cement)
• → Persian: سیمان (simân)
• → Plautdietsch: Zemment
• → Polish: cement
• → Samogitian: cements
• → Serbo-Croatian: цемент
• → Sinhalese: සිමෙන්ති (simenti)
• → Slovak: cement
• → Slovene: cement
• → Swedish: cement
• → Tajik: семент (sement)
• → Tamil: சிமிட்டி (cimiṭṭi)
• → Tatar: cement
• → Turkmen: sement
• → Ukrainian: цеме́нт (cemént)
• → Urdu: سیمنٹ (sīmeṇṭ)
• → Uzbek: цемент, tsement, sement
• → West Frisian: semint
• → Yakut: цемент (tsement)

References

• “caementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caementum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caementum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin