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latrocinium

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From latrōcinor (to rob, to fight for pay) +‎ -ium, from Latin latrō (mercenary, brigand).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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latrōcinium n (genitive latrōciniī or latrōcinī); second declension

  1. military service for pay
  2. (figuratively)
    1. robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering
    2. an act of banditry or brigandage
    3. band of robbers
    4. villany, roguery, fraud
    5. (Ecclesiastical Latin, derogatory) an illegitimate church council, especially the Second Council of Ephesus

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative latrōcinium latrōcinia
genitive latrōciniī
latrōcinī1
latrōciniōrum
dative latrōciniō latrōciniīs
accusative latrōcinium latrōcinia
ablative latrōciniō latrōciniīs
vocative latrōcinium latrōcinia

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

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Further reading

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  • latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • latrocinium 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)
  • latrocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • latrocinium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • latrocinium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ “ladro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN