iustitium

Latin

Alternative forms

• jūstitium

Etymology

From iūs +‎ sistō +‎ -ium.

Noun

iūstitium n (genitive iūstitiī or iūstitī); second declension

1. cessation of public business (especially in the courts)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	iūstitium	iūstitia
genitive	iūstitiī iūstitī1	iūstitiōrum
dative	iūstitiō	iūstitiīs
accusative	iūstitium	iūstitia
ablative	iūstitiō	iūstitiīs
vocative	iūstitium	iūstitia

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

Related terms

• armistitium
• sōlstitium
• operistitium

References

• “iustitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iustitium 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)
• iustitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to proclaim that the courts are closed, a cessation of legal business: iustitium indicere, edicere (Phil. 5. 12)
    
  • to re-open the courts: iustitium remittere
    
• “iustitium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers