bovicidium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws

Proto-Italic *gʷōs

Osco-Umbrianbor.?

Latin bōs

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.

Proto-Italic *kaidō

Latin caedō

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin -cīda

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin -cīdium

Latin bovicīdium

From bōs (“cow, bull, ox”) + -cīdium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɔ.wɪˈkiː.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [bo.viˈt͡ʃiː.di.um]

Noun

bovicīdium n (genitive bovicīdiī or bovicīdī); second declension

1. slaughtering of cattle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	bovicīdium	bovicīdia
genitive	bovicīdiī bovicīdī1	bovicīdiōrum
dative	bovicīdiō	bovicīdiīs
accusative	bovicīdium	bovicīdia
ablative	bovicīdiō	bovicīdiīs
vocative	bovicīdium	bovicīdia

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

Related terms

• bōs
• bovārius
• bovātim
• bovīlla
• bovīllus
• bovīnus
• būbalus
• būbīle
• Būbōna
• bubsequa
• būbula
• bubulcārius
• bubulcitō
• bubulcus
• būbulīnus
• būbulus

References

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