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Latin
Etymology 1
Substantive of pūblicus (“of or pertaining to the people, state or community”).
Noun
pūblicum n (genitive pūblicī); second declension
- state property
- the treasury; state depot
- state revenue
- publicity
- public road
- the public (people in general; an audience)
- commonwealth, the republic
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of pūblicus (“of or pertaining to the people, state or community”).
Adjective
pūblicum
- inflection of pūblicus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- publicum 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)
- publicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be cast out unburied: proiici inhumatum (in publicum)
- (ambiguous) to show oneself in the streets, in public: in publicum prodire (Verr. 2. 1. 31)
- (ambiguous) to bring a law before the notice of the people: legem proponere in publicum
- (ambiguous) the council of the nation; the senate: publicum consilium (Phil. 7.7. 19)
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959