patrimonium

From pater (“father”) +‎ -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with mātrimōnium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈmoː.ni.um/, [pät̪rɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.triˈmo.ni.um/, [pät̪riˈmɔːnium]

patrimōnium n (genitive patrimōniī or patrimōnī); second declension

1. the estate or assets that are passed from father to son, patrimony
   1. (Imperial period) the emperor’s private property inherited to his private heirs, as distinguished from the assets bound to the function of the emperor called fiscus and the state-bound assets called aerārium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• fiscus (“the assets bound to the function of the emperor”)
• aerārium (“the state treasury”)

• “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “patrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• patrimonium 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)
• patrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium