Editing Monument (section)

== Etymology ==

The word "monument" comes from the Latin "''monumentum''", derived from the word ''moneo'', ''monere'', which means 'to remind' or 'to warn', suggesting a monument allows us to see the past thus helping us visualize what is to come in the future.<ref name="ColeReed1997">{{cite book|author1=John Young Cole|author2=Henry Hope Reed|title=The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1P_bTHtdTwkC|year=1997|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-393-04563-5|page=16}}</ref> In English the word "monumental" is often used in reference to something of extraordinary size and power, as in [[monumental sculpture]], but also to mean simply anything made to commemorate the dead, as a [[funerary monument]] or other example of [[funerary art]].