praesagium

Latin

Alternative forms

• prēsāgium (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From praesāgio +‎ -ium.

Noun

praesāgium n (genitive praesāgiī or praesāgī); second declension

1. premonition, presentiment, foreboding, presage

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praesāgium	praesāgia
Genitive	praesāgiī praesāgī1	praesāgiōrum
Dative	praesāgiō	praesāgiīs
Accusative	praesāgium	praesāgia
Ablative	praesāgiō	praesāgiīs
Vocative	praesāgium	praesāgia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: presagi
• Middle French: presage
  • → English: presage
  • French: présage
• Italian: presagio
• Spanish: presagio

References

• “praesagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praesagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praesagium 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)
• praesagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.