English → Latin
“monument” in Latin
monumentumreminder, memorial; monument; tomb, burial placelitteraletter (of the alphabet); handwriting; letter, epistlepōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)collocōto place, put, set in order, assign, arrange; to put together, assemble; to settlesepulcrumgrave; burial place; tomb; sepulchre
The English word monument itself goes back to Latin moneō, through monumentum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
monument
monumentum (general term): written monuments, litterarum monumenta; litterae: to erect a monument to any one, alicui monumentum statuere, ponere, collocare: to cause a monument to be erected, monumentum faciendum locare: to leave a monument behind one, relinquere aliquid, quo nos vixisse testemur (Plin., Ep., 3, 7, 14): a sepulchral monument, monumentum, sepulcrum (the former any memorial erected in honor of the dead, whether over their graves or in another place, whether consisting of a house, arch, a stone, etc.; sepulcrum, the place of burial, fenced round and adorned with a monumentum, a cippus, etc.; Vid: Cic. Sext., 67, init., L. Opimius, cujus monumentum celeberrimum in foro, sepulcrum desertissimum in litore Dyrrachino relictum est): Mausoleum (a splendid sepulchral monument built by Octavian, which served as the burial place for himself and succeeding emperors to the time of Hadrian; Vid: Suet., Oct., 100, extr.; also, ironically, of a simple grave stone; Suet., Vit., 10, extr.): cenotaphium (a sepulchral monument erected to anyone, even during his lifetime): to erect a (sepulchral) monument to anyone, facere alicui monumentum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for monument?
- The usual Latin words for “monument” are monumentum, littera, pōnō; also collocō, sepulcrum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.