adonidium

Latin

Alternative forms

• adōnium

Etymology

Apparently the neuter substantive of alternative adjectival construction *adōnidius, built on the genitive stem of Adōnid-, Adōnis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.doːˈni.di.um/, [äd̪oːˈnɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.doˈni.di.um/, [äd̪oˈniːd̪ium]

Noun

adōnidium n (genitive adōnidiī or adōnidī); second declension

1. Alternative form of adōnium (type of meter)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	adōnidium	adōnidia
genitive	adōnidiī adōnidī1	adōnidiōrum
dative	adōnidiō	adōnidiīs
accusative	adōnidium	adōnidia
ablative	adōnidiō	adōnidiīs
vocative	adōnidium	adōnidia

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

Descendants

• Translingual: Adonidia (perhaps)

References

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