traiectorium
Latin
Etymology
From trāiciō (“to transfer, cause to go across”) (past participle stem trāiect-) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns for tools and instruments).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [traː.jɛkˈtoː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪ra.jekˈt̪ɔː.ri.um]
Noun
trāiectōrium n (genitive trāiectōriī or trāiectōrī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | trāiectōrium | trāiectōria |
| genitive | trāiectōriī trāiectōrī1 |
trāiectōriōrum |
| dative | trāiectōriō | trāiectōriīs |
| accusative | trāiectōrium | trāiectōria |
| ablative | trāiectōriō | trāiectōriīs |
| vocative | trāiectōrium | trāiectōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Galician: treitoira
- → English: trajectory
- → Proto-West Germanic: *trahtārī (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “traiectorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "traiectorium", 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)
- traiectorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.