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parricidium
parricidium
Latin
Etymology
pār (“even”) + -cīdium, or parricīda + -ium
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paːr.riˈkiː.di.um/, [paːr.rɪˈkiː.di.ũ]
Noun
parricīdium n (genitive parricīdiī or parricīdī); second declension
- parricide (act)
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | parricīdium | parricīdia |
| genitive | parricīdiī parricīdī1 |
parricīdiōrum |
| dative | parricīdiō | parricīdiīs |
| accusative | parricīdium | parricīdia |
| ablative | parricīdiō | parricīdiīs |
| vocative | parricīdium | parricīdia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
References
- parricidium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- parricidium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “parricidium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- parricidium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers