contubernium

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Latin

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Etymology

From con- (“with, shared”) +‎ taberna (“hut; tent”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

contubernium n (genitive contuberniī or contubernī); second declension

  1. (historical military) A squad of soldiers sharing a single tent, usually 6–8 men.
  2. attendance (in war)
  3. attendance, accompanying (of teachers, friends, etc.)
  4. marriage of slaves
  5. a dwelling together (referring to animals)
  6. a dwelling of different persons
  7. (in general) household, company

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative contubernium contubernia
Genitive contuberniī
contubernī1 		contuberniōrum
Dative contuberniō contuberniīs
Accusative contubernium contubernia
Ablative contuberniō contuberniīs
Vocative contubernium contubernia

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

Meronyms

  • (unit of soldiers): centuria (10 contubernia); cohors (60 contubernia); legio (notionally 600 contubernia)

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: contubérnio

References

  • “contubernium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “contubernium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • contubernium 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)
  • contubernium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “contubernium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “contubernium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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