meditamentum

meditor (“to consider, prepare”) +‎ -mentum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.di.taːˈmen.tum/, [mɛd̪ɪt̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.di.taˈmen.tum/, [med̪it̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]

meditāmentum n (genitive meditāmentī); second declension

1. preparation, exercises
   • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 4.26:

     ibi struenda acie, muniendo vallandoque et ceteris belli meditamentis militem firmabant

     There they improved the morale of their soldiers by drilling them in battle formation, by having them erect fortifications and a palisade, and by all other forms of military training

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “meditamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meditamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meditamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.