obsequium
Latin
Alternative forms
- opsequium
Etymology
From obsequor (“submit to, yield to”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /obˈse.kʷi.um/, [ɔpˈs̠ɛkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /obˈse.kwi.um/, [obˈsɛːkwium]
Noun
obsequium n (genitive obsequiī or obsequī); second declension
- complaisance, yielding, compliance; deference, allegiance, obedience, obsequiousness.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | obsequium | obsequia |
| Genitive | obsequiī obsequī1 | obsequiōrum |
| Dative | obsequiō | obsequiīs |
| Accusative | obsequium | obsequia |
| Ablative | obsequiō | obsequiīs |
| Vocative | obsequium | obsequia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- (allegiance): dēvōtiō
- (deference): observantia
Derived terms
- obsequiālis
- obsequiōsus
Related terms
Related terms
- obsecūtiō
- obsecūtor
- obsequēla
- obsequēns
- obsequenter
- obsequentia
- obsequiae
- obsequibilis
- obsequor
Descendants
- Catalan: obsequi
- Galician: obsequio
- Italian: ossequio
- Portuguese: obséquio
- Spanish: obsequio
References
- “obsequium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsequium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obsequium 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)
- obsequium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette