sterquilinium

Latin

Alternative forms

• stercilīnium
• sterculīnium
• sterculīnum

Etymology

From stercus (“dung”) +‎ -ulum +‎ -inum +‎ -ium.

Noun

sterquilīnium n (genitive sterquilīniī or sterquilīnī); second declension

1. dung heap
2. midden

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sterquilīnium	sterquilīnia
Genitive	sterquilīniī sterquilīnī1	sterquilīniōrum
Dative	sterquilīniō	sterquilīniīs
Accusative	sterquilīnium	sterquilīnia
Ablative	sterquilīniō	sterquilīniīs
Vocative	sterquilīnium	sterquilīnia

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

References

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