auxilium

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Latin

Etymology

From augeō (spread, honor, promote).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

auxilium n (genitive auxiliī or auxilī); second declension

  1. help, aid
    Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, subsidium, fidēs, praesidium
  2. (medicine) antidote, remedy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative auxilium auxilia
Genitive auxiliī
auxilī1
auxiliōrum
Dative auxiliō auxiliīs
Accusative auxilium auxilia
Ablative auxiliō auxiliīs
Vocative auxilium auxilia

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: auxili (learned)
  • Italian: ausilio
  • Portuguese: auxílio (learned)
  • Spanish: auxilio (learned)

References

  • auxilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • auxilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • auxilium 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)
  • auxilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to bring aid to; to rescue: auxilium, opem, salutem ferre alicui
    • to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
    • prompt assistance: auxilium praesens
    • (ambiguous) to come to assist any one: auxilio alicui venire
    • (ambiguous) to summon auxiliary troops: auxilia arcessere
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “augeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 61-2