adiutorium

Latin

Alternative forms

• adjūtōrium

Etymology

From adiūtor (“helper”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

adiūtōrium n (genitive adiūtōriī or adiūtōrī); second declension

1. help, assistance, support, aid

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adiūtōrium	adiūtōria
Genitive	adiūtōriī adiūtōrī1	adiūtōriōrum
Dative	adiūtōriō	adiūtōriīs
Accusative	adiūtōrium	adiūtōria
Ablative	adiūtōriō	adiūtōriīs
Vocative	adiūtōrium	adiūtōria

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

Related terms

• adiūtor

Descendants

• → Friulian: jutori
• → Old Italian: adiutorio, aiutorio
• → Old Leonese: aidorio, aydorio, aiudorio
• → Portuguese: adjutório
• → Sardinian: agiutóriu
• → Spanish: adjutorio coadyutorio

From Vulgar Latin adjūtōrium:

• Aromanian: agiutor
• Old French: aitoire, aidoire, attaire
• Old Occitan: aitori, ajutori
• Romanian: ajutor

References

• adjutorium 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)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “adjutorium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 164