naticidium
Latin
Alternative forms
- gnāticīdium
Etymology
nātus (“child”) + -cīdium
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /naː.tiˈkiː.di.um/, [näːt̪ɪˈkiːd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /na.tiˈt͡ʃi.di.um/, [nät̪iˈt͡ʃiːd̪ium]
Noun
nāticīdium n (genitive nāticīdiī or nāticīdī); second declension
- the murdering of one's son or child, child-murder
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | nāticīdium | nāticīdia |
| Genitive | nāticīdiī nāticīdī1 | nāticīdiōrum |
| Dative | nāticīdiō | nāticīdiīs |
| Accusative | nāticīdium | nāticīdia |
| Ablative | nāticīdiō | nāticīdiīs |
| Vocative | nāticīdium | nāticīdia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “naticidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- naticidium 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)
- naticidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette