adagium

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adā̆gium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

adagium n (plural adagia or adagiums)

1. adage

Usage notes

• The plural adagiums is non-standard and proscribed, but common in practice.

Descendants

• → Indonesian: adagium

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch adagium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈda.ɡjʊm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm
• Hyphenation: a‧da‧gium

Noun

adagium

1. adage (an old saying which has obtained credit by long use)

Latin

Alternative forms

• adā̆giō

Etymology

A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) +‎ aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) +‎ agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō, contāgiō/contāgēs, as well as the fact that Varro associates it with ambāgiō, a variant of ambāgēs (“circumlocution”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈdaː.ɡi.um/, [äˈd̪äːɡiʊ̃ˑ] or IPA^(key): /aˈda.ɡi.um/, [äˈd̪äɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈda.d͡ʒi.um/, [äˈd̪äːd͡ʒium]
• Note: the length of the vowel is unattested.

Noun

adā̆gium n (genitive adā̆giī or adā̆gī); second declension

1. proverb, adage

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	adā̆gium	adā̆gia
genitive	adā̆giī adā̆gī1	adā̆giōrum
dative	adā̆giō	adā̆giīs
accusative	adā̆gium	adā̆gia
ablative	adā̆giō	adā̆giīs
vocative	adā̆gium	adā̆gia

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

Synonyms

• adā̆giō

Related terms

• (possibly) prōdigium

Descendants

• English: adagium
• English: adage
• French: adage
• Italian: adagio
• Portuguese: adágio
• Romanian: adagiu
• Spanish: adagio

Further reading

• “ădăgĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ădăgĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ădăgĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 29/3.
• adagium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “adagium” on page 35/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)