suffragium

Latin[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /sufˈfraː.ɡi.um/, [s̠ʊfˈfräːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sufˈfra.d͡ʒi.um/, [sufˈfräːd͡ʒium]

suffrāgium n (genitive suffrāgiī or suffrāgī); second declension

voting tablet
vote
judgement
assent
applause
(Late Latin) help, support
(Ecclesiastical Latin) prayer of intercession
- Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum.

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

“suffragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“suffragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
suffragium 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)
suffragium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
- to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
- to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
“suffragium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“suffragium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin