latrocinium
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Latin
Alternative forms
- latrōnicium (Late Latin metathesized form)
Etymology
From latrōcinor (“to rob, to fight for pay”) + -ium, from Latin latrō (“mercenary, brigand”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /la.troːˈki.ni.um/, or IPA(key): /lat.roːˈki.ni.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /la.troˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, or IPA(key): /lat.roˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/,
Noun
latrōcinium n (genitive latrōciniī or latrōcinī); second declension
- military service for pay
- (figuratively)
- robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering
- an act of banditry or brigandage
- band of robbers
- villany, roguery, fraud
- (Ecclesiastical Latin, derogatory) an illegitimate church council, especially the Second Council of Ephesus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | latrōcinium | latrōcinia |
| Genitive | latrōciniī latrōcinī1 |
latrōciniōrum |
| Dative | latrōciniō | latrōciniīs |
| Accusative | latrōcinium | latrōcinia |
| Ablative | latrōciniō | latrōciniīs |
| Vocative | latrōcinium | latrōcinia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old French: larrecin, larcin
- Borrowings:
- → English: Latrocinium
- → Italian: ladrocinio, latrocinio
- → Portuguese: latrocínio
- → Spanish: latrocinio
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “latrocĭnium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 202
Further reading
- “latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- latrocinium 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)
- latrocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- latrocinium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “latrocinium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin