spolium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spolium.

Noun

spolium (uncountable)

  1. The property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Referred to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel-. See English spill.

Noun

spolium n (genitive spoliī or spolī); second declension

  1. the skin or hide of an animal stripped off
  2. (transferred sense) the arms or armor stripped from a defeated enemy
  3. booty, prey, spoil
    Synonyms: praeda, manubia, rapīna
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.16.19:
      Melius est humiliārī cum mītibus, quam dīvidere spolia cum superbīs.
      It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.
      (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative spolium spolia
genitive spoliī
spolī1 		spoliōrum
dative spoliō spoliīs
accusative spolium spolia
ablative spoliō spoliīs
vocative spolium spolia

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: spolji
  • English: spoil
  • Spanish: espolio
  • Catalan: espoli
  • Italian: spoglio
  • → Portuguese: espólio

References

  • “spolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “spolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • spolium 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)
  • spolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “spoil”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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