aquilicium

• aquaelicium (with dubious formation)

From aqua (“water”) +‎ laciō (“I entice”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kʷɪˈlɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.kʷiˈliː.t͡ʃi.um]

aquilicium n (genitive aquiliciī or aquilicī); second declension

1. a mean (sacrifice) to produce rain, a supplication for rain

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “aquaelicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aquilicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• aquaelicium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung