indicium
English
Etymology
From Latin indicium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdɪʃɪəm/, /ɪnˈdɪsɪəm/
Noun
indicium (plural indicia or indiciums)
- An indication; a sign.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 431:
- that dim continuum cannot be as sensually groped for, tasted, harkened to, as Veen's Hollow between rhythmic beats; but it shares with it one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 431:
Latin
Etymology
From index (“indicator”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈdi.ki.um/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈdi.t͡ʃi.um/, [in̪ˈd̪iːt͡ʃium]
Noun
indicium n (genitive indiciī or indicī); second declension
- information, evidence, discovery, notice
- Synonyms: nūntius, fāma, notitia
- reward for information
- indication, sign, proof, token
- Synonyms: signum, index
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | indicium | indicia |
| Genitive | indiciī indicī1 | indiciōrum |
| Dative | indiciō | indiciīs |
| Accusative | indicium | indicia |
| Ablative | indiciō | indiciīs |
| Vocative | indicium | indicia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- index
- indicābilis
- indicātiō
- indicātīvus
- indicātor
- indicātūra
- indicīna
- indicō
- indiculum
Descendants
- → Catalan: indici
- Old French: enge
- French: enge
- Norman: enge
- → German: Indiz
- Italian: indizio
- → Portuguese: indício
- → Spanish: indicio
- → Swedish: indicium
See also
- doctrīna f
- nūntius m
- scientia f
References
- “indicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “indicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- indicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- indicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
- this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin indicium.
Noun
indicium n
- (law) item of circumstantial evidence
Declension
| Declension of indicium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | indicium | indiciet | indicier | indicierna |
| Genitive | indiciums | indiciets | indiciers | indiciernas |
References
- indicium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- indicium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- indicium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)