mendum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”), same source as Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”).

Noun

mendum n (genitive mendī); second declension

  1. fault, error, blunder (of writing)
  2. blemish, defect (of the body)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mendum menda
Genitive mendī mendōrum
Dative mendō mendīs
Accusative mendum menda
Ablative mendō mendīs
Vocative mendum menda

Derived terms

References
  • mendum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mendum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mendum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • mendum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)
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