paramentum

parō (“adorn”) +‎ -mentum

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.raˈmen.tum/, [päräˈmɛn̪t̪um]

parāmentum n (genitive parāmentī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. ornament
   • 11th century, Frutolf of Michelsberg, “Excerptum de Vita Alexandri Magni”, in Chronica:

     caballus quoque Bucefalus et imperiale paramentum Alexandri tuum sit

     that the horse and imperial ornament of Alexander Bucephalus may also be yours

2. throne, royal state or dignity
3. vestment
4. (in the plural) liturgical paraphernalia

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → Dutch: parament
• → German: Parament
• Italian: paramento
• Old French: parement
  • French: parement
  • → English: parament

• paramentum 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “paramentum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill