## Examples
- There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in the war.
- Stonehenge is one of Britain's most visited ancient monuments.

## Derived Forms
- megamonument
- monumentless
- monumentlike
- monumentous
- remonumentation

## Related Forms
- monumental
- monumentally

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *men- (think)
- Root: monument
- Root: monumentum

## Etymology
From Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”).

## AI Etymology
Monument comes from Middle English monument, from Old French monument, from Latin monumentum (“memorial, monument, tomb”), from monēre (“to remind”). In present-day English its meanings include a structure built to remember a person or event and a famous old building or place that is protected because of its importance. The historical chain runs through *men- (think) (Proto-Indo-European), monument (Middle English), monument (Old French), and monumentum (Latin). Related and derived forms include monumental, monumentally, megamonument, and monumentless.

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