subterfugium
Latin
Etymology
From subterfugiō + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊp.tɛrˈfʊ.ɡi.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sub.t̪erˈfuː.d͡ʒi.um]
Noun
subterfugium n (genitive subterfugiī or subterfugī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | subterfugium | subterfugia |
| genitive | subterfugiī subterfugī1 |
subterfugiōrum |
| dative | subterfugiō | subterfugiīs |
| accusative | subterfugium | subterfugia |
| ablative | subterfugiō | subterfugiīs |
| vocative | subterfugium | subterfugia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Ido: subterfujo
- → Italian: sotterfugio m
- → Middle French: subterfuge m
- French: subterfuge m
- → English: subterfuge
- → Old Occitan:
- Occitan: subterfugi m
- Catalan: subterfugi m
- → Spanish: subterfugio m
References
- subterfugium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “subterfugium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- “subterfugium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press