suicidium
See also: Suicidium
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsuɪt͡siːdɪjum]
Noun
suicidium n
- suicide
- Synonym: sebevražda
Declension
Related terms
- suicidalita
- suicidální
- suicidiální
Further reading
- “suicidium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Latin
Etymology
From suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”). Its use in modern Romance languages and New Latin is attested later than, and perhaps ultimately from, English suicide.[1] Suicida (“self-killer”), from suī + -cīda (“killer”), is attested in Walter of Saint Victor's Contra quatuor labyrinthos Franciae (c. 1177), but both suicidium and suicida were otherwise unfound throughout the Middle Ages.[2]
Noun
suīcīdium n (genitive suīcīdiī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | suīcīdium | suīcīdia |
| genitive | suīcīdiī | suīcīdiōrum |
| dative | suīcīdiō | suīcīdiīs |
| accusative | suīcīdium | suīcīdia |
| ablative | suīcīdiō | suīcīdiīs |
| vocative | suīcīdium | suīcīdia |
Synonyms
Descendants
All borrowed.
References
- ^ Daube, David. “The Linguistics of Suicide.” Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 4, 1972, pp. 387–437. JSTOR, [1]. Accessed 6 July 2023.
- ^ van Hooff, Anton J. L. “A Longer Life for ‘Suicide’: When Was the Latin Word for Self-Murderer Invented?” Romanische Forschungen, vol. 102, no. 2/3, 1990, pp. 255–59. JSTOR, [2]. Accessed 4 July 2023.