absedium

Latin

Etymology

Alteration of Latin obsidium.

Noun

absedium n (genitive absediī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) siege

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	absedium	absedia
genitive	absediī absedī1	absediōrum
dative	absediō	absediīs
accusative	absedium	absedia
ablative	absediō	absediīs
vocative	absedium	absedia

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

Descendants

• → Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: asedio
  • Portuguese: assédio

References

• absedium 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)