commodatum

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English, from Latin commodātum (“loan”), neuter substantive of commodātus (“borrowed, lent”). === Noun === commodatum (plural commodata) (Roman law, civil law) A gratuitous loan for the temporary use of a thing to be returned after a fixed or determinable time. A contract in which movables are loaned in this way. ==== Synonyms ==== loan for use ==== Antonyms ==== mutuum, loan for consumption == Latin == === Participle === commodātum inflection of commodātus: nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular accusative masculine singular === References === “commodatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “commodatum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “commodatum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “commodatum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin