Latin

Noun

negōtium n ‎(genitive negōtiī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

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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)