stillicidium
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
stillicidium (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) A morbid trickling.
- (law, historical) An urban servitude in Ancient Rome, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour.
- Synonym: stillicide
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From stīlla (“drop”) + cadō (“fall”) + -ium.
Noun edit
stīllicidium n (genitive stīllicidiī or stīllicidī); second declension
- liquid (especially rainwater) falling drop by drop
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | stīllicidium | stīllicidia |
| Genitive | stīllicidiī stīllicidī1 |
stīllicidiōrum |
| Dative | stīllicidiō | stīllicidiīs |
| Accusative | stīllicidium | stīllicidia |
| Ablative | stīllicidiō | stīllicidiīs |
| Vocative | stīllicidium | stīllicidia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- Catalan: estalzim
- → English: stillicide
- → Italian: stillicidio
References edit
- “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stillicidium 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)
- stillicidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “stillicidium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “stillicidium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin