obloquium

Latin

Etymology

From obloquor (“to gainsay, contradict”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

obloquium n (genitive obloquiī or obloquī); second declension

1. a contradiction

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	obloquium	obloquia
Genitive	obloquiī obloquī1	obloquiōrum
Dative	obloquiō	obloquiīs
Accusative	obloquium	obloquia
Ablative	obloquiō	obloquiīs
Vocative	obloquium	obloquia

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

References

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