accendium

Latin

Etymology

From accendō (“I kindle, set light (a fire)”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

accendium n (genitive accendiī or accendī); second declension

1. a kindling, a setting on fire

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	accendium	accendia
genitive	accendiī accendī1	accendiōrum
dative	accendiō	accendiīs
accusative	accendium	accendia
ablative	accendiō	accendiīs
vocative	accendium	accendia

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

References

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