obsequium

Latin

Alternative forms

• opsequium

Etymology

From obsequor (“submit to, yield to”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /obˈse.kʷi.um/, [ɔpˈs̠ɛkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /obˈse.kwi.um/, [obˈsɛːkwium]

Noun

obsequium n (genitive obsequiī or obsequī); second declension

1. complaisance, yielding, compliance; deference, allegiance, obedience, obsequiousness.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	obsequium	obsequia
Genitive	obsequiī obsequī1	obsequiōrum
Dative	obsequiō	obsequiīs
Accusative	obsequium	obsequia
Ablative	obsequiō	obsequiīs
Vocative	obsequium	obsequia

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

Synonyms

• (allegiance): dēvōtiō
• (deference): observantia

Derived terms

• obsequiālis
• obsequiōsus

Related terms

Related terms

• obsecūtiō
• obsecūtor
• obsequēla
• obsequēns
• obsequenter
• obsequentia
• obsequiae
• obsequibilis
• obsequor

Descendants

• Catalan: obsequi
• Galician: obsequio
• Italian: ossequio
• Portuguese: obséquio
• Spanish: obsequio

References

• “obsequium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obsequium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obsequium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• obsequium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.