indicium

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin indicium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɪʃɪəm/, /ɪnˈdɪsɪəm/

Noun

indicium (plural indicia or indiciums)

1. An indication; a sign.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 431:

     that dim continuum cannot be as sensually groped for, tasted, harkened to, as Veen's Hollow between rhythmic beats; but it shares with it one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.

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Latin

Etymology

From index (“indicator”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.ki.um/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.t͡ʃi.um/, [in̪ˈd̪iːt͡ʃium]

Noun

indicium n (genitive indiciī or indicī); second declension

1. information, evidence, discovery, notice
2. reward for information
3. indication, sign, proof, token

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	indicium	indicia
Genitive	indiciī indicī1	indiciōrum
Dative	indiciō	indiciīs
Accusative	indicium	indicia
Ablative	indiciō	indiciīs
Vocative	indicium	indicia

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

Related terms

• index
• indicābilis
• indicātiō
• indicātīvus
• indicātor

• indicātūra
• indicīna
• indicō
• indiculum

Descendants

• French: indice
• Italian: indizio
• Portuguese: indício
• Spanish: indicio
• Swedish: indicium

See also

• doctrīna f
• nūntius m
• scientia f

References

• “indicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “indicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• indicium 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)
• indicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)