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Latin
Etymology
From iūs + sistō + -ium.
Noun
iūstitium n (genitive iūstitiī or iūstitī); second declension
- cessation of public business (especially in the courts)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “iustitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "iustitium", 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)
- iustitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to proclaim that the courts are closed, a cessation of legal business: iustitium indicere, edicere (Phil. 5. 12)
- to re-open the courts: iustitium remittere
- “iustitium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers