suicidium

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

suicidium n

  1. suicide
    Synonym: sebevražda

Declension

Declension of suicidium (semisoft neuter foreign)
singular plural
nominative suicidium suicidia
genitive suicidia suicidií
dative suicidiu suicidiím
accusative suicidium suicidia
vocative suicidium suicidia
locative suicidiu suicidiích
instrumental suicidiem suicidii

Further reading

  • “suicidium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Latin

Etymology

From suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) +‎ -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”). Its use in modern Romance languages and New Latin is attested later than, and perhaps ultimately from, English suicide.[1] Suicida (“self-killer”), from suī +‎ -cīda (“killer”), is attested in Walter of Saint Victor's Contra quatuor labyrinthos Franciae (c. 1177), but both suicidium and suicida were otherwise unfound throughout the Middle Ages.[2]

Noun

suīcīdium n (genitive suīcīdiī); second declension

  1. (New Latin) suicide

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative suīcīdium suīcīdia
genitive suīcīdiī suīcīdiōrum
dative suīcīdiō suīcīdiīs
accusative suīcīdium suīcīdia
ablative suīcīdiō suīcīdiīs
vocative suīcīdium suīcīdia

Synonyms

Descendants

All borrowed.

References

  1. ^ Daube, David. “The Linguistics of Suicide.” Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 4, 1972, pp. 387–437. JSTOR, . Accessed 6 July 2023.
  2. ^ van Hooff, Anton J. L. “A Longer Life for ‘Suicide’: When Was the Latin Word for Self-Murderer Invented?” Romanische Forschungen, vol. 102, no. 2/3, 1990, pp. 255–59. JSTOR, . Accessed 4 July 2023.
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