Latin

Noun

spolium n ‎(genitive spoliī); second declension

1. the skin or hide of an animal stripped off
2. (transf.) the arms or armor stripped from a defeated enemy
   1. booty, prey, spoil

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• spoliō

Descendants

• English: spoil
• Italian: spoglio
• Portuguese: espólio

References

• spolium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spolium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SPOLIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spolium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• spoil in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag