rogamentum

Forms

rogāmentum n (genitive rogāmentī); second declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin rogō (“to ask”) + -mentum.^[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found in the logical treatise Peri hermeneias attributed to Apuleius, meaning a question or proposition put for debate.^[4][5][2]

Semantic evolution

The word stayed rare and technical, a term of logic: Lewis & Short and Georges render it “question”, and Gaffiot “proposition”.^[2][3][4] Latin–Greek glossaries give it, together with interrogāmentum, as the equivalent of Ancient Greek πεῦσις (peûsis), “inquiry”.^[6][7]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) A question.^[2][3][5]
2. (Late Latin, logic) A proposition put forward.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
5. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
6. ^ Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
7. ^ du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre