prodigium
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From prō- (prefix denoting a forward direction, something before or prior, or prominence) + aiō (“to say, speak”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns); compare and contrast with adagiō, later adagium, more likely of different formation.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proːˈdi.ɡi.um/, [proːˈd̪ɪɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈdi.d͡ʒi.um/, [proˈd̪iːd͡ʒium]
Noun
[edit]prōdigium n (genitive prōdigiī or prōdigī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | prōdigium | prōdigia |
genitive | prōdigiī prōdigī1 |
prōdigiōrum |
dative | prōdigiō | prōdigiīs |
accusative | prōdigium | prōdigia |
ablative | prōdigiō | prōdigiīs |
vocative | prōdigium | prōdigia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: prodigi
- French: prodige
- Italian: prodigio
- Portuguese: prodígio
- Romanian: prodigiu
- Spanish: prodigio
References
[edit]- “prodigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prodigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prodigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to avert by expiatory sacrifices the effect of ominous portents: prodigia procurare (Liv. 22. 1)
- to avert by expiatory sacrifices the effect of ominous portents: prodigia procurare (Liv. 22. 1)
- “prodigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “prodigium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms prefixed with pro-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁eǵ-
- Latin terms suffixed with -ium
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook