classicum

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Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

classicum

  1. nominative neuter singular of classicus

Noun

classicum n (genitive classicī); second declension

  1. (military) a field signal given on the trumpet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative classicum classica
Genitive classicī classicōrum
Dative classicō classicīs
Accusative classicum classica
Ablative classicō classicīs
Vocative classicum classica

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *classum

References

  • classicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • classicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • classicum 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)
  • classicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    • (ambiguous) the trumpet sounds for the attack: classicum canit (B. C. 3. 82)
  • classicum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • classicum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin