spurium
See also: Spurium
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspʊ.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspuː.ri.um]
Etymology 1
Unclear, perhaps from a derivation of Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”) like σποραῖον (sporaîon), but transmitted by Plutarch’s Questions 103 as Sabine, thus guessed from Etruscan, and perhaps natively related to spurcus (“foul”) of a suffix like murcus and to spurius (“bastard”).
Noun
spurium n (genitive spuriī or spurī); second declension (Late Latin, rare)
- pudendum muliebre
- a marine animal of similar shape
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spurium | spuria |
| genitive | spuriī spurī1 |
spuriōrum |
| dative | spuriō | spuriīs |
| accusative | spurium | spuria |
| ablative | spuriō | spuriīs |
| vocative | spurium | spuria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Etymology 2
Adjective
spurium
- inflection of spurius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “spurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “spurium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 645a