gelicidium
Latin
Etymology
From gelū (“frost”) + cadō (“to fall”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɛ.lɪˈkɪ.di.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d͡ʒe.liˈt͡ʃiː.d̪i.um]
Noun
gelicidium n (genitive gelicidiī or gelicidī); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) frost
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gelicidium | gelicidia |
| genitive | gelicidiī gelicidī1 |
gelicidiōrum |
| dative | gelicidiō | gelicidiīs |
| accusative | gelicidium | gelicidia |
| ablative | gelicidiō | gelicidiīs |
| vocative | gelicidium | gelicidia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Italian: gelicidio
References
- “gelicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "gelicidium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gelicidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.