adagium

Learned borrowing from Latin adā̆gium.

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adagium n (plural adagia or adagiums)

1. adage

• The plural adagiums is non-standard and proscribed, but common in practice.

• → Indonesian: adagium

Borrowed from Dutch adagium.

• IPA^(key): /aˈda.ɡjʊm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm
• Hyphenation: a‧da‧gium

adagium

1. adage (an old saying which has obtained credit by long use)

• adā̆giō

A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) +‎ aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) +‎ agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō, contāgiō/contāgēs,^[1] as well as the fact that Varro associates it with ambāgiō, a variant of ambāgēs (“circumlocution”).^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈdaː.ɡi.ũː], [aˈda.ɡi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd̪aː.d͡ʒi.um]

Note: the length of the vowel is unattested.

adā̆gium n (genitive adā̆giī or adā̆gī); second declension

1. proverb, adage

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• adā̆giō

• (possibly) prōdigium

• → English: adagium
• → English: adage
• → French: adage
• → Italian: adagio
• → Portuguese: adágio
• → Romanian: adagiu
• → Spanish: adagio

• “ădăgĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ădăgĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ădăgĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 29/3.
• adagium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “adagium” on page 35/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)