iustitium

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Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From iūs +‎ sistō +‎ -ium.

Noun[edit]

iūstitium n (genitive iūstitiī or iūstitī); second declension

  1. cessation of public business (especially in the courts)

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative iūstitium iūstitia
Genitive iūstitiī
iūstitī1
iūstitiōrum
Dative iūstitiō iūstitiīs
Accusative iūstitium iūstitia
Ablative iūstitiō iūstitiīs
Vocative iūstitium iūstitia

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

References[edit]

  • iustitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • iustitium 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)
  • iustitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to proclaim that the courts are closed, a cessation of legal business: iustitium indicere, edicere (Phil. 5. 12)
    • to re-open the courts: iustitium remittere
  • iustitium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers