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implēmentum n (genitive implēmentī); second declension[1] Also spelled inplēmentum.[2][1]

Etymology

It is from Latin impleō (“to fill up”) + -mentum.[3][2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Caelius Aurelianus, a medical writer of the 5th century, says in his work on chronic diseases that in anger one is affected by a fullness of the head (capitis implemento).[3][4][5]

Semantic evolution

The TLL treats it as the same as impletio, a filling;[3] besides Caelius Aurelianus it occurs in the medical writer Vindicianus, of the filling of the vessels.[3]

In medieval Latin it meant the fulfilment or accomplishment of something, such as a wish or a divine work,[6][7] and in British records the making up of a holding or a sum to its full or customary amount, the filling in of a wall, and the goods due to a new bishop from his predecessor's estate.[8] Niermeyer records the sense of crops and stock (emblements),[9] and Ecclesiastical Latin that of a tool or means.[10] English took it in the mid-15th century, first as a supplementary payment; the sense of a tool came in by the 1530s.[11]

Timeline

  • 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it of a fullness of the head.[3][5]
  • 1170 – A Pipe Roll uses it for making up a manor to its full stock.[8]
  • 1209 – A Winchester Pipe Roll uses it for the filling in of a wall.[8]
  • 1286 – A Salisbury charter uses it of what a new bishop may claim from his predecessor's estate.[8]
  • mid-15th century – English borrows it as implement.[11]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A filling up; in medicine, a feeling of fullness (of the head).[2][4][12]
  2. (Medieval Latin) Fulfilment, accomplishment.[6][7]
  3. (Medieval Latin) The making up of something (a holding, money due) to its full amount; a filling in.[8]
  4. (Medieval Latin) Crops and stock; emblements.[9]
  5. (Ecclesiastical Latin) An implement, tool, means.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  7. ^ a b Bartal, Antal, et al. (1987–), Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi Hungariae, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; online ed. ELTE
  8. ^ a b c d e Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
  9. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  10. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  11. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
  12. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier