tyrannicidium

Latin

Etymology

tyrannus (“tyrant”) +‎ -cīdium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ty.ran.niˈkiː.di.um/, [t̪ʏränːɪˈkiːd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ti.ran.niˈt͡ʃi.di.um/, [t̪iränːiˈt͡ʃiːd̪ium]

Noun

tyrannicīdium n (genitive tyrannicīdiī or tyrannicīdī); second declension

1. tyrannicide

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tyrannicīdium	tyrannicīdia
Genitive	tyrannicīdiī tyrannicīdī1	tyrannicīdiōrum
Dative	tyrannicīdiō	tyrannicīdiīs
Accusative	tyrannicīdium	tyrannicīdia
Ablative	tyrannicīdiō	tyrannicīdiīs
Vocative	tyrannicīdium	tyrannicīdia

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

Related terms

• tyranna
• tyrannicē
• tyrannicīda
• tyrannicus
• tyrannis

Descendants

• English: tyrannicide

References

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