vaticinium

Latin

Etymology

Derived from vāticinor (“I prophesy, foretell”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

vāticinium n (genitive vāticiniī or vāticinī); second declension

1. prediction, prophecy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vāticinium	vāticinia
genitive	vāticiniī vāticinī1	vāticiniōrum
dative	vāticiniō	vāticiniīs
accusative	vāticinium	vāticinia
ablative	vāticiniō	vāticiniīs
vocative	vāticinium	vāticinia

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

Descendants

• Portuguese: vaticínio
• Spanish: vaticinio

Adjective

vāticinium

1. inflection of vāticinius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “vaticinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vaticinium 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)
• vaticinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.