Latin

Noun

homicīdium n ‎(genitive homicīdiī or homicīdī); second declension

1. homicide, manslaughter, murder

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Descendants

• Italian: omicidio
• Portuguese: homizio, homicídio (borrowing)
• Spanish: homicídio (borrowing)

References

• homicidium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• homicidium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• HOMICIDIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “homicidium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• homicidium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016