mendum

Latin

Alternative forms

• menda

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”), same source as Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

mendum n (genitive mendī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mendum	menda
genitive	mendī	mendōrum
dative	mendō	mendīs
accusative	mendum	menda
ablative	mendō	mendīs
vocative	mendum	menda

Derived terms

• ēmendō
• mendāx
• mendīcus
• mendōsus

See also

• menda

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mendum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)