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Latin
Etymology
From supplex (“kneeling, begging, suppliant”) (oblique stem supplic-) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
supplicium n (genitive suppliciī or supplicī); second declension
- kneeling, supplication, an humble entreaty or petition
- Synonyms: postulātum, supplicātiō, petītiō, rogātiō, precātiō, prex
- punishment
- Synonyms: pūnītiō, mercēs, poena, sanctio, vindicātiō, exemplum, pretium, vindicta, malum, animadversus
- suffering
- torture
- Synonyms: cruciātus, exemplum
- offering to the gods
- Sallust (Catilinae Coniuratio)
- In suppliciis deorum magnifici erant.
- They were generous in their offerings to the gods.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “supplicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “supplicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supplicium 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)
- supplicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare
- to exact a penalty from some one: supplicium sumere de aliquo
- to decree the penalty of death: supplicium alicui decernere, in aliquem constituere
- to execute the death-sentence on a person: supplicium sumere de aliquo
- to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
- “supplicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers