aucupium

Latin

Etymology

From auceps (“bird-catcher, fowler”) +‎ -ium. Compare aucupor (“to go bird-catching”).

Noun

aucupium n (genitive aucupiī or aucupī); second declension

1. wildfowling

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aucupium	aucupia
Genitive	aucupiī aucupī1	aucupiōrum
Dative	aucupiō	aucupiīs
Accusative	aucupium	aucupia
Ablative	aucupiō	aucupiīs
Vocative	aucupium	aucupia

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

Related terms

• auceps

References

• “aucupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aucupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aucupium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• aucupium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • minute, pedantic carping at words: verborum aucupium or captatio