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latrocinium
latrocinium
Latin
Noun
latrōcinium n (genitive latrōciniī); second declension
- Military service for pay.
- (figuratively) Robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering.
- (figuratively) An act of banditry or brigandage.
- (figuratively) A band of robbers.
- (figuratively) Villany, roguery, fraud.
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | latrōcinium | latrōcinia |
| genitive | latrōciniī | latrōciniōrum |
| dative | latrōciniō | latrōciniīs |
| accusative | latrōcinium | latrōcinia |
| ablative | latrōciniō | latrōciniīs |
| vocative | latrōcinium | latrōcinia |
Descendants
- Old French: larcin
- Italian: latrocinio
- Portuguese: latrocínio
- Spanish: latrocinio
References
- latrocinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- latrocinium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- LATROCINIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “latrocinium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- latrocinium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- latrocinium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ↑ “ladro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2