commilitium
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom con- (“co-”) + mīles (“soldier”) (stem mīlit-) + -ium (“-ship”, noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kom.miːˈli.ti.um/, [kɔmːiːˈlʲɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.miˈlit.t͡si.um/, [komːiˈlit̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
editcommīlitium n (genitive commīlitiī or commīlitī); second declension
- comradeship, companionship in war
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | commīlitium | commīlitia |
genitive | commīlitiī commīlitī1 |
commīlitiōrum |
dative | commīlitiō | commīlitiīs |
accusative | commīlitium | commīlitia |
ablative | commīlitiō | commīlitiīs |
vocative | commīlitium | commīlitia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
edit- “commilitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commilitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers