Latin

Alternative forms

• supp. abbreviation
• subplēmentum

Noun

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• suppleō
• supplētōrium

Descendants

• French: supplément
• Spanish: suplemento

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “supplementum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere