aequinoctium
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ae̯.kʷiˈnok.ti.um/, [äe̯kʷɪˈnɔkt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.kwiˈnok.t͡si.um/, [ekwiˈnɔkt̪͡s̪ium]
Noun[edit]
aequinoctium n (genitive aequinoctiī or aequinoctī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aequinoctium | aequinoctia |
Genitive | aequinoctiī aequinoctī1 |
aequinoctiōrum |
Dative | aequinoctiō | aequinoctiīs |
Accusative | aequinoctium | aequinoctia |
Ablative | aequinoctiō | aequinoctiīs |
Vocative | aequinoctium | aequinoctia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Italian: equinozio
- Old French: equinoce, equinoxe
- Portuguese: equinócio
- Spanish: equinoccio
- → Middle English: equinoccium, equinoxium, equenoxium (learned)
- → German: Äquinoktium (learned)
- → Middle Low German: equenoxium (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *ebnanaht (see there for further descendants)
- → Irish: cónocht
- → Romanian: echinocțiu
References[edit]
- “aequinoctium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aequinoctium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aequinoctium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aequinoctium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “aequinoctium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press