aequilavium

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps aequus (“equal; even”) +‎ lavō (“wash”) +‎ -ium, describing how wool loses half it weight after washing. Compare to the semantically similar solox.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯.kʷiˈla.u̯i.um/, [äe̯kʷɪˈɫ̪äu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.kwiˈla.vi.um/, [ekwiˈläːvium]

Noun

aequilavium n (genitive aequilaviī or aequilavī); second declension

1. (of wool) half of the whole

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	aequilavium	aequilavia
genitive	aequilaviī aequilavī1	aequilaviōrum
dative	aequilaviō	aequilaviīs
accusative	aequilavium	aequilavia
ablative	aequilaviō	aequilaviīs
vocative	aequilavium	aequilavia

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

References

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