talentum

Latin

From Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “a weight; talent”), from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂ent-, from *telh₂-. In post-Classical Latin, the term was used figuratively to refer to a gift from God in general, influenced by the biblical Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30); the medieval sense “skill, ability” is an extension of this usage.^[1]

talentum n (genitive talentī); second declension

A Grecian weight, which contained sixty minae or half a hundredweight.
A talent or sum of money; usually the Attic talent (sometimes with magnum).
Vīgintī talentiīs ūnam ōrātiōnem Īsocratēs vēndidit.
Isocrates sold one oration for twenty talents.
(Late Latin, figuratively) A gift from God, grace.
(Medieval Latin, New Latin, by extension) A marked natural skill or ability.

“talentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
talentum 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)
“talentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
“talentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“talentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
talentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “talentum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “talentum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1012

^ Hitzl, Konrad (2002) “Talent”, in Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, volume 14, →ISBN, page 121

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