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Latin
Etymology
From īnsideō (“to sit in, upon”).
Pronunciation
Noun
īnsidiae f pl (genitive īnsidiārum); first declension
- (usually in the plural) ambush
- (usually in the plural) artifice, plot, snare
c. 100 CE – 110 CE,
Tacitus,
Histories 4.16:
- ubi insidiae parum cessere, ad vim transgressus Canninefatis, Frisios, Batavos propriis cuneis componit
- Translation by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
- When stratagem proved ineffectual, he resorted to force, arranging in distinct columns the Canninefates, the Batavians, and the Frisii.
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “insidiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insidiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "insidiae", 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)
- insidiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.