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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the adjective ēditus (“set forth”, “heightened”: of places “elevated”, “high”, “lofty”; figuratively “superior”); as an adjective, regularly declined forms; as a noun, a substantivisation of the neuter forms.
Noun
ēditum n (genitive ēditī); second declension
- a height, an elevated place, an elevation
- (transferred sense) a command, an order
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Synonyms
References
- “ēdĭtum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “editum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- editum 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)
- ēdĭta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 571/1.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) heights, high ground: loca edita, superiora
- — Gaffiot records this noun as plurale tantum (nom. ēdita, gen. ēditōrum), in plural senses, only.
Adjective
ēditum
- inflection of ēditus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Etymology 2
See the verb ēdō (“I give out”, “I put or bring forth”).
Verb
ēditum
- accusative supine of ēdō
Etymology 3
See the participle ēditus, the perfect passive participle of the verb ēdō.
Participle
ēditum
- inflection of ēditus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Etymology 4
See the noun ēditus (“excrement”).
Noun
ēditum
- accusative singular of ēditus