argumentum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin argūmentum. Doublet of argument. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtəm, IPA(key): /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntəm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹɡjuˈmɛntəm/ (Latinate) IPA(key): /ɑɹ.ɡuːˈmeɪn.tum/ Rhymes: -ɛntəm === Noun === argumentum (plural argumenta) (chiefly formal, in law, logic, etc.) Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”. 1682: Sir Edward Coke, Argumentum anti-Normannicum, main title (John Darby) Argumentum anti-Normannicum: or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== arguendi causa arguendo == Latin == === Etymology === From arguō (“to prove or demonstrate”) +‎ -mentum (“instrument; medium; result of”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ar.ɡuːˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ar.ɡuˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === argūmentum n (genitive argūmentī); second declension argument (as in an argument for a position); evidence, a proof a point, a theme a topic, thesis a plot, especially in theater. a device, as for war. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== argūmentālis argūmentor argūmentōsus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “argūmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “argumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "argumentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “argūmentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 160. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. argumentum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “argūmentum” on page 168/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “argumentum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 59/2