Latin

Noun

suffrāgium n ‎(genitive suffrāgiī); second declension

1. voting tablet
2. vote
3. judgement
4. assent
5. applause

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: suffrage
• French: suffrage
• Spanish: sufragio
• Portuguese: sufrágio

References

• suffragium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• suffragium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SUFFRAGIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “suffragium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
    
  • to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
    
  • to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
    
• suffragium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• suffragium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin