Home › Words › J › jumentjumentjument means an animal, especially a beast of burden.EtymologyFrom Middle English jument, from Anglo-Norman jument or directly from Latin iūmentum.nounAn animal, especially a beast of burden.e.g.“That men should feed on such a kinde of meat, / Which very juments would refuse to eat.” — 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).