Latin

Noun

dōnātīvum n ‎(genitive dōnātīvī); second declension

1. financial gratuity given to Roman soldiers at the accession of the Emperor, later than Augustus
2. (rare) financial gratuity given to Roman soldiers on occasion of a triumph in the Republican era
3. (ecclesiastical) gift

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: donative

References

• donativum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• donativum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DONATIVUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “donativum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• donativum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• donativum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin