lotium

Latin

Etymology

From lōtus, a variant form of the perfect passive participle of lavō (“to wash”) +‎ -ium (“abstract noun suffix”), so called because urine was widely used as a washing and bleaching agent.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈloː.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪oːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlot.t͡si.um/, [ˈlɔt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

lōtium n (genitive lōtiī or lōtī); second declension

urine, piss
Synonym: ūrīna
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.18:
  Ad haec ille surrīdēns ‘At tū’ inquit ‘nōn sanguine sed lōtiō perfūsus es!’
  Hearing this, he grinned and said, "But you didn't soak in blood, you soaked in piss!"
- 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De agri cultura 122:
  Vīnum concinnāre, sī lōtium difficilius transībit. capreidam vel jūnipirum contunditō in pīlā, lībram inditō, in duōbus congiīs vīnī veteris in vāse ahēneō vel in plumbeō dēfervēfacitō: ubi refrīxerit, in lagōnam inditō. id māne jeijūnus sūmitō cyathum: prōderit.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lōtium	lōtia
genitive	lōtiī lōtī¹	lōtiōrum
dative	lōtiō	lōtiīs
accusative	lōtium	lōtia
ablative	lōtiō	lōtiīs
vocative	lōtium	lōtia

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

References

“lotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
lotium 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)
lotium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
lotium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
“lōtium” on page 1148/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Anagrams

mutilo