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English
Etymology
From Latin stillicidium.
Noun
stillicidium (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) A morbid trickling.
- (law, historical) An urban servitude in Ancient Rome, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour.
- Synonym: stillicide
Latin
Etymology
From stīlla (“drop”) + cadō (“fall”) + -ium.
Noun
stīllicidium n (genitive stīllicidiī or stīllicidī); second declension
- liquid (especially rainwater) falling drop by drop
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stillicidium 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)
- stillicidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “stillicidium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “stillicidium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin