agonium

Latin

Etymology

From agō (“I do”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡoː.ni.ũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈɡɔː.ni.um]

Noun

agōnium n (genitive agōniī or agōnī); second declension

The day in which the sacrificial victims were immolated

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	agōnium	agōnia
genitive	agōniī agōnī¹	agōniōrum
dative	agōniō	agōniīs
accusative	agōnium	agōnia
ablative	agōniō	agōniīs
vocative	agōnium	agōnia

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

Derived terms

agōnālis
agōnia

References

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