Michaelium

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Μιχᾳηλεῖον (Mikhāiēleîon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mi.kʰaˈeː.li.um/, [mɪkʰäˈeːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.kaˈe.li.um/, [mikäˈɛːlium]

Proper noun

Michaēlium n sg (genitive Michaēliī or Michaēlī); second declension

1. the church of St. Michael
   • circa AD 510, Epiphanius Scholasticus (translator), Cassiodorus (editor), Socrates Scholasticus (author), Sozomen (author), Theodoret (author), Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, book II, chapter xix

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Michaēlium
genitive	Michaēliī Michaēlī1
dative	Michaēliō
accusative	Michaēlium
ablative	Michaēliō
vocative	Michaēlium

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• Michāēl

References

• “Michăēlĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Michaelium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.