tyrannicidium
Latin
Etymology
tyrannus (“tyrant”) + -cīdium
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ty.ran.nɪˈkiː.di.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪i.ran.niˈt͡ʃiː.d̪i.um]
Noun
tyrannicīdium n (genitive tyrannicīdiī or tyrannicīdī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tyrannicīdium | tyrannicīdia |
| genitive | tyrannicīdiī tyrannicīdī1 |
tyrannicīdiōrum |
| dative | tyrannicīdiō | tyrannicīdiīs |
| accusative | tyrannicīdium | tyrannicīdia |
| ablative | tyrannicīdiō | tyrannicīdiīs |
| vocative | tyrannicīdium | tyrannicīdia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- tyranna
- tyrannicē
- tyrannicīda
- tyrannicus
- tyrannis
Descendants
- English: tyrannicide
References
- “tyrannicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tyrannicidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.