suovetaurilia
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin suovetaurīlia.
Noun
[edit]suovetaurilia (plural suovetaurilias)
- A religious rite of Ancient Rome, the triple sacrifice of a pig, a ram, and a bull to the deity Mars in order to bless and purify land.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin suovetaurīlia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suovetaurilia m pl
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sūs (“pig”) + ovis (“sheep”) + taurus (“bull”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /su.o.u̯e.tau̯ˈriː.li.a/, [s̠uou̯ɛt̪äu̯ˈriːlʲiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /su.o.ve.tau̯ˈri.li.a/, [suovet̪äu̯ˈriːliä]
Noun
[edit]suovetaurīlia n pl (genitive suovetaurīlium); third declension
- (religion) The ritual sacrifice of a pig, a ram and a bull to the god Mars; suovetaurilia
- 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura 141.1:
- Agrum lustrare sic oportet. Impera suovitaurilia circumagi: […]
- It is necessary to purify the field like this. Order the suovetaurilia to be brought around [the field]: […]
- Agrum lustrare sic oportet. Impera suovitaurilia circumagi: […]
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | suovetaurīlia |
Genitive | suovetaurīlium |
Dative | suovetaurīlibus |
Accusative | suovetaurīlia |
Ablative | suovetaurīlibus |
Vocative | suovetaurīlia |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: suovetaurilia, suovitaurilia (learned)
- → Italian: suovetaurilia (learned)
References
[edit]- suovetaurilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “suovetaurilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suovetaurilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “suovetaurilia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “suovetaurilia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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