spolium
English
Noun
spolium (uncountable)
- The property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.
Latin
Etymology
Referred to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel-. See English spill.
Noun
spolium n (genitive spoliī or spolī); second declension
- the skin or hide of an animal stripped off
- (transferred sense) the arms or armor stripped from a defeated enemy
- booty, prey, spoil
- Synonyms: praeda, manubia, rapīna
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 16:19:
- Melius est humiliārī cum mītibus, quam dīvidere spolia cum superbīs.
- It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.
- Melius est humiliārī cum mītibus, quam dīvidere spolia cum superbīs.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | spolium | spolia |
Genitive | spoliī spolī1 | spoliōrum |
Dative | spoliō | spoliīs |
Accusative | spolium | spolia |
Ablative | spoliō | spoliīs |
Vocative | spolium | spolia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- spoliō
- spolia opīma
Descendants
- Aromanian: spolji
- English: spoil
- Spanish: espolio
- Catalan: espoli
- Italian: spoglio
- → Portuguese: espólio
References
- “spolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spolium 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)
- spolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- spoil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag