negotium

Latin

Alternative forms

• negōcium (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

nec (“not”) +‎ ōtium (“leisure”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /neˈɡoː.ti.um/, [nɛˈɡoːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /neˈɡot.t͡si.um/, [neˈɡɔt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

negōtium n (genitive negōtiī or negōtī); second declension

1. business, employment, occupation, affair

   Synonyms: mūnus, ministerium, officium, cūra, cūrātiō

2. (figuratively) difficulty, pains, trouble, labor

   Negotium exhibere alicui.

   To give trouble to someone.

   Facili negotio.

   With little trouble.

3. (figuratively) matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma))

   Quid est negotii?

   What thing is it?

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	negōtium	negōtia
Genitive	negōtiī negōtī1	negōtiōrum
Dative	negōtiō	negōtiīs
Accusative	negōtium	negōtia
Ablative	negōtiō	negōtiīs
Vocative	negōtium	negōtia

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

Related terms

• negōtiālis
• negōtiāns
• negōtiātiō
• negōtiātor
• negōtiolum
• negōtior
• negōtiōsus

Descendants

• → Asturian: negociu
• → Catalan: negoci
• → Dutch: negotie
• → English: negotiate
• → French: négoce
• → Franco-Provençal: nègoço
• → Friulian: negozi
• → Italian: negozio
• → Piedmontese: negòssi
• → Portuguese: negócio
• > Romanian: negoț (inherited)
• → Romansch: negozi
• → Spanish: negocio

References

• “negotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “negotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• negotium 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)
• negotium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: mandatum, negotium alicui dare
    
  • to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: negotium ad aliquem deferre
    
  • to undertake an affair: negotium suscipere
    
  • to execute, manage a business, undertaking: negotium obire, exsequi
    
  • to arrange, settle a matter: negotium conficere, expedire, transigere
    
  • to be occupied with business, busy: negotia agere, gerere
    
  • to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse
    
  • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    
  • to give a person trouble, inconvenience him: negotium alicui facessere (Fam. 3. 10. 1)
    
  • it is a great undertaking to..: magnum negotium est c. Inf.
    
  • without any trouble: nullo negotio
    
  • business-men: homines negotii (always in sing.) gerentes
    
  • good men of business: negotii bene gerentes (Quint. 19. 62)
    
  • to be engaged upon a transaction, carry it out: negotium obire or exsequi
    
  • to settle, finish a transaction: negotium (rem) conficere, absolvere
    
  • to have commercial interests in Sicily: negotia habere (in Sicilia)
    
  • to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
    
  • public affairs: negotia publica (Off. 1. 20. 69)
    
  • to retire from public life: a negotiis publicis se removere
    
  • banished from public life: gerendis negotiis orbatus (Fin. 5. 20. 57)