pigmentum

From pingō (“to paint”) +‎ -mentum (“denoting the instrument or result of an action”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [pɪɡˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piɡˈmen.tum/, [piɡˈmɛn̪t̪um]

pigmentum n (genitive pigmentī); second declension

1. A material for coloring; color, paint, pigment, dye.
2. (figuratively, of style) Ornament, coloring.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pigmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pigmentum 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)
• pigmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pigmĕntum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 445