atramentum

== Latin == === Etymology === From āter (“black”) +‎ -āmentum. === Noun === ātrāmentum n (genitive ātrāmentī); second declension black liquid ink Near-synonym: encaustum blacking ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== French: atramentaire Italian: atramento Old French: arrement → Old Polish: atrament (learned)Polish: atrament, atramént (Masuria)Silesian: atramynt Portuguese: atramento Spanish: atramento English: atrament === References === “atramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “atramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "atramentum", 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) “atramentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “atramentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “atramentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin