Latin edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain; possibly for Proto-Indo-European *n̥duh₂tio- (inability), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (to be able; to arrange).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

indūtiae f pl (genitive indūtiārum); first declension

  1. truce, armistice
    Synonym: armistitium
  2. cessation, pause

Declension edit

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative indūtiae
Genitive indūtiārum
Dative indūtiīs
Accusative indūtiās
Ablative indūtiīs
Vocative indūtiae

Descendants edit

  • Sicilian: sduzziu
  • Italian: indugio

References edit

  • indutiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • indutiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • indutiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “indūtiae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 302
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to make a truce: indutias facere (Phil. 8. 7)
    • (ambiguous) to break a truce: indutias violare