patrimonium

See also: Patrimonium

Latin

Etymology

From pater (“father”) +‎ -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with mātrimōnium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈmoː.ni.um/, [pät̪rɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈmo.ni.um/, [pät̪riˈmɔːnium]

Noun

patrimōnium n (genitive patrimōniī or patrimōnī); second declension

1. the estate or assets that are passed from father to son, patrimony
   1. (Imperial period) the emperor’s private property inherited to his private heirs, as distinguished from the assets bound to the function of the emperor called fiscus and the state-bound assets called aerārium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patrimōnium	patrimōnia
Genitive	patrimōniī patrimōnī1	patrimōniōrum
Dative	patrimōniō	patrimōniīs
Accusative	patrimōnium	patrimōnia
Ablative	patrimōniō	patrimōniīs
Vocative	patrimōnium	patrimōnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Coordinate terms

• fiscus (“the assets bound to the function of the emperor”)
• aerārium (“the state treasury”)

Descendants

• Catalan: patrimoni
• English: patrimony
• French: patrimoine
• Galician: patrimonio
• German: Patrimonium
• Italian: patrimonio
• Dutch: patrimonium
• Portuguese: património, patrimônio (Brazil), patrimonio (obsolete)
• Romanian: patrimoniu
• Spanish: patrimonio

References

• “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patrimonium 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)
• patrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium