latrocinium

• latrōnicium (Late Latin metathesized form)

From latrōcinor (“to rob, to fight for pay”) +‎ -ium, from Latin latrō (“mercenary, brigand”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫa.troːˈkɪ.ni.ũː], [ɫat.roːˈkɪ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.t̪roˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um], [lat̪.roˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um]

latrōcinium n (genitive latrōciniī or latrōcinī); second declension

1. military service for pay
2. (figuratively)
   1. robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering
   2. an act of banditry or brigandage
   3. band of robbers
   4. villany, roguery, fraud
   5. (Ecclesiastical Latin, derogatory) an illegitimate church council, especially the Second Council of Ephesus

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• latrōnicium

• Old French: larrecin, larcin
  • French: larcin
  • → English: larceny
• Borrowings:
  • → English: Latrocinium
  • → Italian: ladrocinio, latrocinio
  • → Portuguese: latrocínio
  • → Spanish: latrocinio

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “latrocĭnium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 202

• “latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "latrocinium", 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)
• latrocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• latrocinium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “latrocinium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin