pittacium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “receipt, ticket”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɪtˈta.ki.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pit̪ˈt̪aː.t͡ʃi.um]
Noun
pittacium n (genitive pittaciī or pittacī); second declension (Late Latin)
- label, ticket on a wine bottle or amphora
- label, ticket for publicity of a right to enter to or use a place
- (figurative) a public proclamation, announcement
- a directory, index, register
- a writ or document attesting the conclusion of an agreement of any kind
- a writ or document confirming the receival of a performance, a quittance
- a plaster; small piece of linen with salve
- a patch on a garment
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pittacium | pittacia |
| genitive | pittaciī pittacī1 |
pittaciōrum |
| dative | pittaciō | pittaciīs |
| accusative | pittacium | pittacia |
| ablative | pittaciō | pittaciīs |
| vocative | pittacium | pittacia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- pittaciārium (“admission charge”)
Descendants
Descendants
References
- “pittacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "pittacium", 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)
- pittacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pittacium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers