testimonium
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin testimōnium.
Noun edit
testimonium n (singular definite testimoniet, plural indefinite testimonier)
Declension edit
Declension of testimonium
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | testimonium | testimoniet | testimonier | testimonierne |
genitive | testimoniums | testimoniets | testimoniers | testimoniernes |
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin testimōnium.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
testimonium n (plural testimoniums or testimonia)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From testis (“witness”) + -mōnium (“obligation”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tes.tiˈmoː.ni.um/, [t̪ɛs̠t̪ɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tes.tiˈmo.ni.um/, [t̪est̪iˈmɔːnium]
Noun edit
testimōnium n (genitive testimōniī or testimōnī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | testimōnium | testimōnia |
Genitive | testimōniī testimōnī1 |
testimōniōrum |
Dative | testimōniō | testimōniīs |
Accusative | testimōnium | testimōnia |
Ablative | testimōniō | testimōniīs |
Vocative | testimōnium | testimōnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
- Old French: tesmoin, tesmoing
- → Old Northern French: testemoingne, testimonie (learned)
- Friulian: testimone
- Italian: testimonio, testimone
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: testimonio
- Galician: testemuño
- Portuguese: testemunho, testemônio
- Romanian: testimoniu
- Sardinian: distimonzu, testimóngiu, tistimognu
- Spanish: testimonio
- Venetian: testimònio
- → Proto-Brythonic: *testʉn
- → Old Irish: testimin
References edit
- “testimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “testimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- testimonium 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)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give evidence on some one's behalf: testimonium dicere pro aliquo
- to state as evidence: pro testimonio dicere
- to give evidence on some one's behalf: testimonium dicere pro aliquo
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
testimonium n (definite singular testimoniet, indefinite plural testimonier, definite plural testimonia or testimoniene)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
testimonium n (definite singular testimoniet, indefinite plural testimonium, definite plural testimonia)
Swedish edit
Noun edit
testimonium n
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Declension edit
Declension of testimonium | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | testimonium | testimoniet | testimonier | testimonierna |
Genitive | testimoniums | testimoniets | testimoniers | testimoniernas |