caementum

See also: cæmentum

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kae̯ˈmen.tum/, [käe̯ˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈmen.tum/, [t͡ʃeˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

caementum n (genitive caementī); second declension

rough stone from the quarry
chips of marble
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

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