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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly for Proto-Indo-European *n̥duh₂tio- (“inability”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to be able; to arrange”).
Pronunciation
Noun
indūtiae f pl (genitive indūtiārum); first declension
- truce, armistice
- Synonym: armistitium
- cessation, pause
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Descendants
References
- “indutiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “indutiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- indutiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “indūtiae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 302
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to make a truce: indutias facere (Phil. 8. 7)
- (ambiguous) to break a truce: indutias violare