supplicium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From supplex (“kneeling, begging, suppliant”) (oblique stem supplic-) + -ium.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /supˈpli.ki.um/, [s̠ʊpˈplʲɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /supˈpli.t͡ʃi.um/, [supˈpliːt͡ʃium]
Noun edit
supplicium n (genitive suppliciī or supplicī); second declension
- kneeling, supplication, an humble entreaty or petition
- Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, petītiō, rogātiō, precātiō, prex
- punishment
- Synonyms: pūnītiō, mercēs, poena, sanctio, vindicātiō, exemplum, pretium, vindicta, malum, animadversus
- suffering
- torture
- offering to the gods
- Sallust (Catilinae Coniuratio)
- In suppliciis deorum magnifici [...] erant.
- They were generous in their offerings to the gods.
- In suppliciis deorum magnifici [...] erant.
- Sallust (Catilinae Coniuratio)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | supplicium | supplicia |
| Genitive | suppliciī supplicī1 |
suppliciōrum |
| Dative | suppliciō | suppliciīs |
| Accusative | supplicium | supplicia |
| Ablative | suppliciō | suppliciīs |
| Vocative | supplicium | supplicia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
References edit
- “supplicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “supplicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supplicium 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)
- supplicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare
- to exact a penalty from some one: supplicium sumere de aliquo
- to decree the penalty of death: supplicium alicui decernere, in aliquem constituere
- to execute the death-sentence on a person: supplicium sumere de aliquo
- to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
- to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare
- “supplicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers