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Latin
Etymology
From augeō (“spread, honor, promote”).
Pronunciation
Noun
auxilium n (genitive auxiliī or auxilī); second declension
- help, aid
- Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, subsidium, fidēs, praesidium
- (medicine) antidote, remedy
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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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
- ^ 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