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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Substantivized neuter of dubius (“doubtful”).
Noun
dubium n (genitive dubiī or dubī); second declension
- doubt
- A doctrinal question that is asked to Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and which later receives a responsa.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
dubium
- inflection of dubius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “dubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dubium 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)
- dubium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to throw doubt upon a thing: in dubium vocare
- (ambiguous) to become doubtful: in dubium venire
- (ambiguous) to leave a thing undecided: aliquid dubium, incertum relinquere