edulium

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Back-formed from edūlia "edible things", substantivized neuter plural of edūlis.

Noun[edit]

edūlium n (genitive edūliī or edūlī); second declension

  1. (chiefly in the plural) food, foodstuff

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative edūlium edūlia
Genitive edūliī
edūlī1
edūliōrum
Dative edūliō edūliīs
Accusative edūlium edūlia
Ablative edūliō edūliīs
Vocative edūlium edūlia

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

References[edit]

  • edulium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • edulium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette