obsidium

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Latin

Etymology 1

From obsideō (“besiege, beset”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

obsidium n (genitive obsidiī or obsidī); second declension

  1. (military) A siege, blockade
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative obsidium obsidia
genitive obsidiī
obsidī1 		obsidiōrum
dative obsidiō obsidiīs
accusative obsidium obsidia
ablative obsidiō obsidiīs
vocative obsidium obsidia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

Etymology 2

From obses (“hostage”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

obsidium n (genitive obsidiī); second declension

  1. hostageship

Etymology 3

Noun

obsidium

  1. genitive plural of obses

References

  • “obsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “obsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "obsidium", 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)
  • obsidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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