auxilium

See also: Auxilium

Latin

Etymology

From augeō (“spread, honor, promote”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯kˈsi.li.um/, [äu̯kˈs̠ɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯kˈsi.li.um/, [äu̯kˈsiːlium]

Noun

auxilium n (genitive auxiliī or auxilī); second declension

1. help, aid

   Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, subsidium, fidēs, praesidium

2. (medicine) antidote, remedy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	auxilium	auxilia
Genitive	auxiliī auxilī1	auxiliōrum
Dative	auxiliō	auxiliīs
Accusative	auxilium	auxilia
Ablative	auxiliō	auxiliīs
Vocative	auxilium	auxilia

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

Synonyms

• (help): adiūmentum, adiūtōrium, opēs, praesidium, subsidium

Derived terms

• auxiliāris
• auxiliārius
• auxiliō
• auxilior

Related terms

• auxiliābundus
• auxiliātiō
• auxiliātor
• auxiliātrīx
• auxiliātus

Descendants

• Italian: ausilio
• → Portuguese: auxílio
• Spanish: auxilio

References

• “auxilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auxilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auxilium 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)
• auxilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring aid to; to rescue: auxilium, opem, salutem ferre alicui
    
  • to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
    
  • prompt assistance: auxilium praesens
    
  • (ambiguous) to come to assist any one: auxilio alicui venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to summon auxiliary troops: auxilia arcessere