suffragium

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Latin

Etymology

suffrāgō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

suffrāgium n (genitive suffrāgiī or suffrāgī); second declension

  1. voting tablet
  2. vote
  3. judgement
  4. assent
  5. applause
  6. (Late Latin) help, support
  7. (Ecclesiastical Latin) prayer of intercession
    • Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative suffrāgium suffrāgia
Genitive suffrāgiī
suffrāgī1 		suffrāgiōrum
Dative suffrāgiō suffrāgiīs
Accusative suffrāgium suffrāgia
Ablative suffrāgiō suffrāgiīs
Vocative suffrāgium suffrāgia

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

Descendants

References

  • “suffragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “suffragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suffragium 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)
  • suffragium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
    • to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
    • to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
  • “suffragium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “suffragium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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