aequinoctium
Latin
Alternative forms
- ēquinoxium, ēquinoctium (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ae̯.kʷɪˈnɔk.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.kʷiˈnɔk.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Noun
aequinoctium n (genitive aequinoctiī or aequinoctī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aequinoctium | aequinoctia |
| genitive | aequinoctiī aequinoctī1 |
aequinoctiōrum |
| dative | aequinoctiō | aequinoctiīs |
| accusative | aequinoctium | aequinoctia |
| ablative | aequinoctiō | aequinoctiīs |
| vocative | aequinoctium | aequinoctia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: equinozio
- Old French: equinoce, equinoxe
- Portuguese: equinócio
- Spanish: equinoccio
- → Middle English: equinoccium, equinoxium, equenoxium (learned)
- → German: Äquinoktium (learned)
- → Middle Low German: equenoxium (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *ebnanaht (see there for further descendants)
- → Irish: cónocht
- → Romanian: echinocțiu
References
- “aequinoctium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aequinoctium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aequinoctium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aequinoctium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “aequinoctium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press