praesagium
Latin
Alternative forms
- prēsāgium (medieval)
Etymology
From praesāgio + -ium.
Noun
praesāgium n (genitive praesāgiī or praesāgī); second declension
- premonition, presentiment, foreboding
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | praesāgium | praesāgia |
| Genitive | praesāgiī praesāgī1 | praesāgiōrum |
| Dative | praesāgiō | praesāgiīs |
| Accusative | praesāgium | praesāgia |
| Ablative | praesāgiō | praesāgiīs |
| Vocative | praesāgium | praesāgia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: presagi
- Middle French: presage
- → English: presage
- French: présage
- Italian: presagio
- Spanish: presagio
References
- “praesagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praesagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praesagium 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)
- praesagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette