sonivius
Latin
FWOTD – 12 April 2016
Etymology
sonus (“sound”, “noise”) + -īvius (enlargement of -īvus)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soˈniː.u̯i.us/, [s̠ɔˈniːu̯iʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈni.vi.us/, [soˈniːvius]
Adjective
sonīvius (feminine sonīvia, neuter sonīvium); first/second-declension adjective
- (in augural language, attested modifying tripudium only) noisy (of the rattling of the corn upon the ground as it fell from the mouths of the sacred chickens)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cato the Elder to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cicero to this entry?)
- AD 77–79, C. Plinius Secundus (aut.), K.F.T. Mayhoff (ed.), Naturalis Historia (1906), bk XV, ch. xxviii:
- quae causa eas nuptiis fecit religiosas, tot modis fetu munito, quod est veri similius quam quia cadendo tripudium sonivium faciant.
- It is for this reason that this fruit has been looked upon as a symbol consecrated to marriage, its offspring being thus protected in such manifold ways: an explanation which bears a much greater air of probability than that which would derive it from the rattling which it makes when it bounds from the floor. ― translation from: J. Bostock and H.T. Riley, The Natural History (1855), bk XV, ch. xxiv (xxii)
- quae causa eas nuptiis fecit religiosas, tot modis fetu munito, quod est veri similius quam quia cadendo tripudium sonivium faciant.
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 290:
- Sonivio significat in carmine augurali, sonanti.
- ibidem, page 297, lines 19–22:
- Sonivium tripudium, ut ait Appius Pulcher, quod sonet, cum pullo excidit plus, quadrupedive.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sonivius.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sonīvius | sonīvia | sonīvium | sonīviī | sonīviae | sonīvia | |
| Genitive | sonīviī | sonīviae | sonīviī | sonīviōrum | sonīviārum | sonīviōrum | |
| Dative | sonīviō | sonīviō | sonīviīs | ||||
| Accusative | sonīvium | sonīviam | sonīvium | sonīviōs | sonīviās | sonīvia | |
| Ablative | sonīviō | sonīviā | sonīviō | sonīviīs | |||
| Vocative | sonīvie | sonīvia | sonīvium | sonīviī | sonīviae | sonīvia | |
Synonyms
- (noisy): sonāns, sonāx, sonōrus
References
- “sŏnĭvĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sonivius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sŏnĭvĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,457/3
- “sonīuius” on page 1,791/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)