Latin edit

Etymology edit

From lōtus, a variant form of the perfect passive participle of lavō (to wash) +‎ -ium (abstract noun suffix), so called because urine was widely used as a washing and bleaching agent.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lōtium n (genitive lōtiī or lōtī); second declension

  1. urine, piss
    Synonym: ūrīna
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.18:
      Ad haec ille surrīdēns ‘At tū’ inquit ‘nōn sanguine sed lōtiō perfūsus es!’
      Hearing this, he grinned and said, "But you didn't soak in blood, you soaked in piss!"
    • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De agri cultura 122:
      Vīnum concinnāre, sī lōtium difficilius transībit. capreidam vel jūnipirum contunditō in pīlā, lībram inditō, in duōbus congiīs vīnī veteris in vāse ahēneō vel in plumbeō dēfervēfacitō: ubi refrīxerit, in lagōnam inditō. id māne jeijūnus sūmitō cyathum: prōderit.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lōtium lōtia
Genitive lōtiī
lōtī1
lōtiōrum
Dative lōtiō lōtiīs
Accusative lōtium lōtia
Ablative lōtiō lōtiīs
Vocative lōtium lōtia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References edit

  • lotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lotium 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)
  • lotium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • lotium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • lōtium” on page 1148/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

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