tasconium

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Compare Spanish tosca (“tuff”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tasˈko.ni.um/, [t̪äs̠ˈkɔniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tasˈko.ni.um/, [t̪äsˈkɔːnium]

Noun

tasconium n (genitive tasconiī or tasconī); second declension

1. (geology) A white kind of earth resembling clay

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tasconium	tasconia
Genitive	tasconiī tasconī1	tasconiōrum
Dative	tasconiō	tasconiīs
Accusative	tasconium	tasconia
Ablative	tasconiō	tasconiīs
Vocative	tasconium	tasconia

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

References

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