spatium
Latin
editEtymology
editPossibly from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁-to- (“extended”), an extension of *speh₁- (“to prosper, succeed”).[1]
An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”), and compares with Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō), Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē), Ancient Greek σπάνις (spánis), English span.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspa.ti.um/, [ˈs̠pät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspat.t͡si.um/, [ˈspät̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
editspatium n (genitive spatiī or spatī); second declension
- space, room, extent
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.683–684:
- gentibus est aliīs tellūs data līmite certō:
Rōmānae spatium est urbis et orbis īdem.- To other nations, land has been allotted with a certain limit.
The extent of the Roman city and of the world is the same.
Or, in more natural English:
Though other nations have been granted land with a border,
the city of Rome's extent equals that of the world.
- To other nations, land has been allotted with a certain limit.
- gentibus est aliīs tellūs data līmite certō:
- distance between points
- a square, walk, or promenade
- racetrack, lap or a race, or racecourse
- period or interval of time
- Synonym: intervallum
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:
- Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.
- Yet, in order that a period might intervene, until the soldiers whom he had ordered [to be furnished] should assemble, he replied to the ambassadors, that he would take time to deliberate; if they wanted any thing, they might return on the day before the ides of April.
- Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.
- quantity of length
- time or leisure, as with opportunity
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | spatium | spatia |
Genitive | spatiī spatī1 |
spatiōrum |
Dative | spatiō | spatiīs |
Accusative | spatium | spatia |
Ablative | spatiō | spatiīs |
Vocative | spatium | spatia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spatium 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)
- spatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
- to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
- to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
- to give some one a few days for reflection: paucorum dierum spatium ad deliberandum dare
- after some time: spatio temporis intermisso
- to give time for recovery: respirandi spatium dare
- at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
- spatium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 578
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Latin spatium (“space, distance”).
Noun
editspatium n (definite singular spatiet, indefinite plural spatier, definite plural spatia or spatiene)
References
edit- “spatium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Latin spatium (“space, distance”), whence also English space.
Noun
editspatium n (definite singular spatiet, indefinite plural spatium, definite plural spatia)
References
edit- “spatium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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