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Latin
Etymology
From iūrgō (“quarrel, dispute”) + -ium, from iūs (“law”).
Pronunciation
Noun
iūrgium n (genitive iūrgiī or iūrgī); second declension
- a quarrel, strife, dispute, altercation, contention; abuse, invective
- Synonyms: lis, rixa
- (law) a legal dispute, a separation between husband and wife
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
References
- “iurgium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “iurgium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iurgium 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)