segmentum

From secō (“cut”) and the ending -mentum (“instrument, medium, or result of”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seɡˈmen.tum/, [s̠ɛɡˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seɡˈmen.tum/, [seɡˈmɛn̪t̪um]

segmentum n (genitive segmentī); second declension

1. a cutting, cut; slice, piece
2. a segment, strip or zone (of the earth)
3. (in the plural) trimmings, bands, flounces

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (piece): fragmentum, frustum

• “segmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “segmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• segmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “segmentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers