adagium
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Noun edit
adagium n (plural adagia or adagiums)
Usage notes edit
The plural adagiums is non-standard and proscribed, but common in practice.
Indonesian edit
Noun edit
adagium (first-person possessive adagiumku, second-person possessive adagiummu, third-person possessive adagiumnya)
- adage
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) + aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) + agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō, contāgiō/contāgēs,[1] as well as the fact that Varro associates it with ambāgiō, a variant of ambāgēs (“circumlocution”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈdaː.ɡi.um/, [äˈd̪äːɡiʊ̃ˑ] or IPA(key): /aˈda.ɡi.um/, [äˈd̪äɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈda.d͡ʒi.um/, [äˈd̪äːd͡ʒium]
- Note: the length of the vowel is unattested.
Noun edit
adā̆gium n (genitive adā̆giī or adā̆gī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | adā̆gium | adā̆gia |
| Genitive | adā̆giī adā̆gī1 |
adā̆giōrum |
| Dative | adā̆giō | adā̆giīs |
| Accusative | adā̆gium | adā̆gia |
| Ablative | adā̆giō | adā̆giīs |
| Vocative | adā̆gium | adā̆gia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Related terms edit
- (possibly) prōdigium
Descendants edit
- English: adagium
- English: adage
- French: adage
- Italian: adagio
- Portuguese: adágio
- Romanian: adagiu
- Spanish: adagio
References edit
Further reading edit
- “ădăgĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ădăgĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ădăgĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 29/3.
- adagium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “adagium” on page 35/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)