justitium

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

justitium

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) An interregnum after the death of an emperor.

Latin

Noun

jūstitium n (genitive jūstitiī or jūstitī); second declension

1. Alternative form of iustitium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	jūstitium	jūstitia
Genitive	jūstitiī jūstitī1	jūstitiōrum
Dative	jūstitiō	jūstitiīs
Accusative	jūstitium	jūstitia
Ablative	jūstitiō	jūstitiīs
Vocative	jūstitium	jūstitia

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

References

• “justitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• justitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “justitium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin