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negotium

negotium

Latin

Noun

negōtium n (genitive negōtiī); second declension

  1. business, affair, matter
  2. employment, occupation, appointment.
  3. difficulty, trouble

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative negōtium negōtia
genitive negōtiī negōtiōrum
dative negōtiō negōtiīs
accusative negōtium negōtia
ablative negōtiō negōtiīs
vocative negōtium negōtia

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Descendants

References

  • negotium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • negotium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • NEGOTIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “negotium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: mandatum, negotium alicui dare
    • to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: negotium ad aliquem deferre
    • to undertake an affair: negotium suscipere
    • to execute, manage a business, undertaking: negotium obire, exsequi
    • to arrange, settle a matter: negotium conficere, expedire, transigere
    • to be occupied with business, busy: negotia agere, gerere
    • to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims: multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse
    • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    • to give a person trouble, inconvenience him: negotium alicui facessere (Fam. 3. 10. 1)
    • it is a great undertaking to..: magnum negotium est c. Inf.
    • without any trouble: nullo negotio
    • business-men: homines negotii (always in sing.) gerentes
    • good men of business: negotii bene gerentes (Quint. 19. 62)
    • to be engaged upon a transaction, carry it out: negotium obire or exsequi
    • to settle, finish a transaction: negotium (rem) conficere, absolvere
    • to have commercial interests in Sicily: negotia habere (in Sicilia)
    • to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
    • public affairs: negotia publica (Off. 1. 20. 69)
    • to retire from public life: a negotiis publicis se removere
    • banished from public life: gerendis negotiis orbatus (Fin. 5. 20. 57)