Latin

Noun

talentum n ‎(genitive talentī); second declension

1. A Grecian weight, which contained sixty minae or half a hundredweight.
2. A talent or sum of money; usually the Attic talent (sometimes with magnum).
3. (New Latin) A marked natural skill or ability

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• talentārius

Descendants

References

• talentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• talentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TALENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “talentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• talentum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• talentum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin