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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain;[1] perhaps from Proto-Italic *autiom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtyom (“forlorn, deserted”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“off, away from”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ōtium n (genitive ōtiī or ōtī); second declension
- time free from activity: leisure, free time
- time avoiding activity: idleness, inactivity
- Synonyms: dēsidia, pigritia, segnitia, ignavia, inertia, sōcordia
- Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās
- peace, quiet, quietness
- Synonyms: quies, tranquillitas, serenitas, pax
- ease
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “otium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “otium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- otium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be at leisure: otium habere
- to be a lover of ease, leisure: otium sequi, amplexari
- (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
- to retire into private life: in otium se referre (Fam. 99)
- (ambiguous) to be at leisure: in otio esse or vivere
- (ambiguous) to be at leisure: otio frui
- (ambiguous) to have abundance of leisure: otio abundare
- (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
- (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: (in) otio languere et hebescere
- (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin otium.
Noun
otium n (definite singular otiet or otiumet, indefinite plural otier, definite plural otia or otiene)
- rest, leisure
References
- “otium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “otium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin otium.
Noun
otium n (plural otiet)
- rest, leisure
References