suffragium

Latin

Etymology

suffrāgō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sufˈfraː.ɡi.um/, [s̠ʊfˈfräːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sufˈfra.d͡ʒi.um/, [sufˈfräːd͡ʒium]

Noun

suffrāgium n (genitive suffrāgiī or suffrāgī); second declension

1. voting tablet
2. vote
3. judgement
4. assent
5. applause
6. (Late Latin) help, support
7. (Ecclesiastical Latin) prayer of intercession
   • Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	suffrāgium	suffrāgia
genitive	suffrāgiī suffrāgī1	suffrāgiōrum
dative	suffrāgiō	suffrāgiīs
accusative	suffrāgium	suffrāgia
ablative	suffrāgiō	suffrāgiīs
vocative	suffrāgium	suffrāgia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: sufragi
• English: suffrage
• French: suffrage
• Italian: suffragio
• Portuguese: sufrágio
• Romanian: sufragiu
• Spanish: sufragio

References

• “suffragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suffragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• suffragium 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)
• suffragium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
    
  • to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
    
  • to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
    
• “suffragium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “suffragium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin