supplementum

• supp. (abbreviation)
• subplēmentum

From suppleō (“fill up; complete; supply”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sup.pleːˈmen.tum/, [sʊp.pɫeːˈmɛn.tũ]

supplēmentum n (genitive supplēmentī); second declension

1. something that fills up or makes up the numbers; supplement
   1. (military) reinforcements
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1:

        Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, […]

        If reinforcements were needed, he should supply them with the legions which Publius Cornelius, propraetor, was in charge of in Sicily, […]

   2. supplies

Second declension.

• suppleō
• supplētōrium

• French: supplément
• Spanish: suplemento

• supplementum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• supplementum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• supplementum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• supplementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere