vindicium

From vindex +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪnˈdɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vin̪ˈd̪iː.t͡ʃi.um]

vindicium n (genitive vindiciī or vindicī); second declension

1. protection; defense, patronage

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• vindicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "vindicium", 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)