complementum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin pleō

Latin compleō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Latin complēmentum

From compleō + -mentum.

Noun

complēmentum n (genitive complēmentī); second declension

1. complement (that which fills up or completes)
2. completion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	complēmentum	complēmenta
genitive	complēmentī	complēmentōrum
dative	complēmentō	complēmentīs
accusative	complēmentum	complēmenta
ablative	complēmentō	complēmentīs
vocative	complēmentum	complēmenta

Derived terms

• complēmentārius

Descendants

• Catalan: complement, compliment
• English: complement, compliment
• French: complément
• Galician: complemento
• Italian: complemento, complimento
• Portuguese: complemento, comprimento, cumprimento
• Romanian: complement, compliment
• Sicilian: cunchimentu, cumprimentu
• Spanish: complemento, complimiento, cumplimiento

References

• “complementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “complementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "complementum", 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)
• “complementum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.