adonidium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently the neuter substantive of alternative adjectival construction *adōnidius, built on the genitive stem of Adōnid-, Adōnis.

Pronunciation

Noun

adōnidium n (genitive adōnidiī or adōnidī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of adōnium (“type of meter”)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative adōnidium adōnidia
Genitive adōnidiī
adōnidī1 		adōnidiōrum
Dative adōnidiō adōnidiīs
Accusative adōnidium adōnidia
Ablative adōnidiō adōnidiīs
Vocative adōnidium adōnidia

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

Descendants

  • Translingual: Adonidia (perhaps)

References

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