subsidium

From sub- (“under”) +‎ sedeō (“sit”) +‎ -ium; see also subsīdō (“crouch down, settle down, squat”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊpˈsɪ.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [subˈsiː.d̪i.um]
• Hyphenation: sub‧si‧di‧um

subsidium n (genitive subsidiī or subsidī); second declension

1. help, support, aid, relief

   Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, auxilium, fidēs, praesidium

2. reinforcement
3. reserve (troops)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "subsidium", 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)
• subsidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be prepared for all that may come: ad omnes casus subsidia comparare
    
  • to send relief to some one: subsidium alicui summittere
    
  • to station reserve troops: subsidia collocare
    
  • to send up reserves: subsidia summittere