subsidium

Latin

Etymology

From sub- (“under”) +‎ sedeō (“sit”) +‎ -ium; see also subsīdō (“crouch down, settle down, squat”).

Noun

subsidium n (genitive subsidiī or subsidī); second declension

1. help, support, aid, relief

   Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, auxilium, fidēs, praesidium

2. reinforcement
3. reserve (troops)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	subsidium	subsidia
Genitive	subsidiī subsidī1	subsidiōrum
Dative	subsidiō	subsidiīs
Accusative	subsidium	subsidia
Ablative	subsidiō	subsidiīs
Vocative	subsidium	subsidia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: subsidi
• Old French: subside
  • Anglo-Norman: subsidie
    • → English: subsidy
  • French: subside
• Galician: subsidio
• Italian: sussidio
• Piedmontese: sussidi
• Portuguese: subsídio
• Romanian: subsidiu
• → Russian: субсидия (subsidija)
• Spanish: subsidio

References

• “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• subsidium 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)
• subsidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be prepared for all that may come: ad omnes casus subsidia comparare
    
  • to send relief to some one: subsidium alicui summittere
    
  • to station reserve troops: subsidia collocare
    
  • to send up reserves: subsidia summittere