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Latin
Etymology
From sub- (“under”) + sedeō (“sit”) + -ium; see also subsīdō (“crouch down, settle down, squat”).
Noun
subsidium n (genitive subsidiī or subsidī); second declension
- help, support, aid, relief
- Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, auxilium, fidēs, praesidium
- reinforcement
- reserve (troops)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subsidium 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)
- subsidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be prepared for all that may come: ad omnes casus subsidia comparare
- to send relief to some one: subsidium alicui summittere
- to station reserve troops: subsidia collocare
- to send up reserves: subsidia summittere