# argumentum
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin argūmentum. Doublet of argument.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtəm, IPA: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntəm/
* (General American) IPA: /ɑɹɡjuˈmɛntəm/
* (Latinate) IPA: /ɑɹ.ɡuːˈmeɪn.tum/
* Rhymes: -ɛntəm
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

argumentum (plural argumenta)
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* (chiefly formal, in law, logic, etc.) Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”.
** 1682: Sir Edward Coke, Argumentum anti-Normannicum, main title (John Darby)
    Argumentum anti-Normannicum: or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers.

#### Derived terms

* argumentum ab auctoritate est fortissimum in lege (law)
* argumentum ab auctoritate plurimum valet in lege (law)
* argumentum ab impossibili plurimum valet in lege (law)
* argumentum ab impossibili valet in lege (law)
* argumentum ab inconvenienti est validum in lege; quia lex non permittit aliquod inconveniens (law)
* argumentum ad antiquitatem (logic)
* argumentum ad baculum (logic)
* argumentum ad captandum (logic)
* argumentum ad consequentiam (logic)
* argumentum ad crumenam (logic)
* argumentum ad dictionarium
* argumentum ad feminam
* argumentum ad fidem
* argumentum ad Hitlerum (logic)
* argumentum ad hominem (logic)
* argumentum ad ignorantiam (logic)
* argumentum ad infinitum (logic)
* argumentum ad invidiam
* argumentum ad judicium
* argumentum ad lapidem (logic)
* argumentum ad Lazarum (logic)
* argumentum ad logicam (logic)
* argumentum ad metum (logic)
* argumentum ad misericordiam (logic)
* argumentum ad nauseam (logic)
* argumentum ad novitatem (logic)
* argumentum ad numerum (logic)
* argumentum ad odium (logic)
* argumentum ad passiones
* argumentum ad populum (logic)
* argumentum ad temperantiam (logic)
* argumentum ad verecundiam (logic)
* argumentum a fortiori (logic)
* argumentum a silentio
* argumentum a simili valet in lege (law)
* argumentum baculinum
* argumentum e silentio, argumentum ex silentio (logic)
* argumentum ex motu (theology)
* argumentum ex ratione causæ efficientis (theology)
* argumentum ornithologicum

#### Related terms

* arguendi causa
* arguendo

## Latin
### Etymology

arguō (“I prove or demonstrate”, “I assert or allege”) +‎ -mentum (“instrument”, “medium”, “result of”)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ar.ɡuːˈmen.tum/, [ärɡuːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ar.ɡuˈmen.tum/, [ärɡuˈmɛn̪t̪um]

### Noun

argūmentum n (genitive argūmentī); second declension
* argument (as in an argument for a position); evidence, a proof
* a point, a theme
* a topic, thesis
* a plot, especially in theater.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* argūmentālis
* argūmentor
* argūmentōsus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: argument
* → English: argumentum, argument (learned)
* French: argument
* Galician: argumento
* → German: Argument
* Italian: argomento
* → Old Irish: argumeint, argumint
** Middle Irish: argamaint, argamint
*** Irish: argóint, argaimint (later borrowing)
*** Manx: argane
*** Scottish Gaelic: argain, argainn
* Portuguese: argumento
* Romanian: argument
* Spanish: argumento
* → Russian: аргуме́нт (argumént)

### References

* “argūmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “argumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* argumentum 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)
* argūmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 160.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a strong, striking proof: argumentum firmum, magnum to bring forward a proof: argumentum afferre to quote an argument in favour of immortality: argumentum immortalitatis afferre (not pro) to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul: argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur a proof of this is that..: argumento huic rei est, quod to prove a thing indisputably: argumentis confirmare, comprobare, evincere aliquid (or c. Acc. c. Inf.) to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere) the points on which proofs are based; the grounds of proof: loci (τόποι) argumentorum (De Or. 2. 162) to refute arguments: argumenta refellere, confutare the plot of the piece: argumentum I have nothing to write about: non habeo argumentum scribendi I have nothing to write about: deest mihi argumentum ad scribendum (Att. 9. 7. 7)
* argumentum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “argūmentum” on page 168/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
* Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “argumentum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 59/2