adagium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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A later variant of adagiō, ostensibly from ad- (toward, to) +‎ aiō (say), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (drive, hurl, compel), from ad- (toward, to) +‎ agō (do, make). If inherited, the preserved a is by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis.

Pronunciation

Noun

adagium n (genitive adagiī or adagī); second declension

  1. proverb, adage

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative adagium adagia
Genitive adagiī
adagī1
adagiōrum
Dative adagiō adagiīs
Accusative adagium adagia
Ablative adagiō adagiīs
Vocative adagium adagia

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

Synonyms

Descendants

  • English: adage
  • French: adage
  • Italian: adagio
  • Portuguese: adágio
  • Spanish: adagio

References

  • ădăgĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ădăgĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ădăgĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 29/3.
  • adagium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • adagium” on page 35/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)