antepagmentum

antepagmentum (plural antepagmenta)

1. (architecture) In ancient architecture, a doorpost, or garnishing in a post or door, wrought in stone or timber, or lintel of a window.

   Synonym: antepagment

• antipagmentum

ante- +‎ pangō (“fasten”) +‎ -mentum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.te.paɡˈmen.tum/, [än̪t̪ɛpäɡˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.te.paɡˈmen.tum/, [än̪t̪epäɡˈmɛn̪t̪um]

antepagmentum n (genitive antepagmentī); second declension

1. The entire chambranle, i.e. the door case, or window frame.
2. (architecture, usually in the plural) In ancient architecture, doorposts, or garnishings in posts or doors, wrought in stone or timber, or lintels of a window.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• pagmentum
• pangō

• “antepagmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antepagmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Antepagmenta, Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (folio, 2 vols.), Ephraim Chambers. London 1728, p. 106.
• ANTEPAGMENTA, Ancient Library, p. 98