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-monium
-monium
Latin
Suffix
-mōnium n (genitive -mōniī); second declension
- Forms collective nouns and nouns designating legal status or obligation from other nouns.
- pater (“father”) → pātrimōnium (“inheritance”)
- māter (“mother”) → mātrimōnium (“marriage”)
- testis (“witness”) → testimōnium (“evidence”)
Usage notes
- daemonium and lēmōnium are borrowings from Greek and do not derive from this stem. Note the o in daemonium derives from omicron and is short.
Declension
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -mōnium | -mōnia |
| genitive | -mōniī | -mōniōrum |
| dative | -mōniō | -mōniīs |
| accusative | -mōnium | -mōnia |
| ablative | -mōniō | -mōniīs |
| vocative | -mōnium | -mōnia |
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Latin_words_suffixed_with_-monium'>Latin words suffixed with -monium</a>