praecipitium

Latin

Etymology

From praecipitō.

Noun

praecipitium n (genitive praecipitiī or praecipitī); second declension

1. precipice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praecipitium	praecipitia
Genitive	praecipitiī praecipitī1	praecipitiōrum
Dative	praecipitiō	praecipitiīs
Accusative	praecipitium	praecipitia
Ablative	praecipitiō	praecipitiīs
Vocative	praecipitium	praecipitia

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

Descendants

• → Catalan: precipici
• Corsican: precipiziu, pricipiziu
• → Middle French: precipice
  • → English: precipice
  • French: précipice
• Friulian: precipizi
• → Italian: precipizio
• Lombard: precipizzi
• Piedmontese: pressipissi, precipissi
• → Portuguese: precipício
• → Romanian: precipițiu
• → Spanish: precipicio

Adjective

praecipitium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of praeceps

References

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