negotium

Latin

Alternative forms

negōcium (medieval)

Etymology

nec (“not”) +‎ ōtium (“leisure”)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /neˈɡoː.ti.um/, [nɛˈɡoːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /neˈɡot.t͡si.um/, [neˈɡɔt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

negōtium n (genitive negōtiī or negōtī); second declension

business, employment, occupation, affair
Synonyms: mūnus, ministerium, officium, cūra, mūnia
(figuratively) difficulty, pains, trouble, labor
Negotium exhibere alicui.
To give trouble to someone.
Facili negotio.
With little trouble.
(figuratively) matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma))
Quid est negotii?
What thing is it?

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	negōtium	negōtia
Genitive	negōtiī negōtī¹	negōtiōrum
Dative	negōtiō	negōtiīs
Accusative	negōtium	negōtia
Ablative	negōtiō	negōtiīs
Vocative	negōtium	negōtia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

negōtiālis
negōtiāns
negōtiātiō
negōtiātor
negōtiolum
negōtior
negōtiōsus

Descendants

Asturian: negociu
Catalan: negoci
English: negotiate
French: négoce
Friulian: negozi
Italian: negozio
Piedmontese: negòssi
Portuguese: negócio
Romanian: negoț
Romansch: negozi
Spanish: negocio

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
negotium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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)