agonium

Latin

Etymology

From agō (“I do”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈɡoː.ni.um/, [äˈɡoːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈɡo.ni.um/, [äˈɡɔːnium]

Noun

agōnium n (genitive agōniī or agōnī); second declension

1. The day in which the sacrificial victims were immolated

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agōnium	agōnia
Genitive	agōniī agōnī1	agōniōrum
Dative	agōniō	agōniīs
Accusative	agōnium	agōnia
Ablative	agōniō	agōniīs
Vocative	agōnium	agōnia

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

Derived terms

• agōnālis
• agōnia

References

• agonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “agonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press