oraculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• ōrāclum

Etymology

From ōrō (“plead, beg; pray, entreat”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.ku.lum/, [oːˈraː.kʊ.ɫũ]

Noun

ōrāculum n (genitive ōrāculī); second declension

1. A divine announcement, oracle.
2. A prophetic declaration; prophecy.
3. A place where oracular responses were given; oracle.
4. An oracular saying, maxim.
5. An imperial rescript.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ōrāculum	ōrācula
genitive	ōrāculī	ōrāculōrum
dative	ōrāculō	ōrāculīs
accusative	ōrāculum	ōrācula
ablative	ōrāculō	ōrāculīs
vocative	ōrāculum	ōrācula

Derived terms

• ōrāculārius

Related terms

Related terms

• ōrābilis
• ōrātiō
• ōrātiuncula
• ōrātor

• ōrātōriē
• ōrātōrius
• ōrātrīx

• ōrātum
• ōrātus
• ōrō

Descendants

• Afrikaans: orakel
• Basque: orakulu
• Bulgarian: оракул (orakul)
• Catalan: oracle
• Czech: orákulum
• Danish: orakel
• Dutch: orakel
• English: oracle

• Esperanto: orakolo
• Estonian: oraakel
• Finnish: oraakkeli
• French: oracle
• German: Orakel
• Hungarian: orákulum
• Ido: oraklo
• Interlingua: oraculo

• Italian: oracolo
• Latvian: orākuls
• Lithuanian: orakulas
• Luxembourgish: Orakel
• Macedonian: оракул (orakul)
• Norwegian: orakel
• Portuguese: oráculo (borrowing), orago
• Romanian: oracol

• Russian: оракул (orakul)
• Serbo-Croatian: оракул
• Slovak: orákulum
• Slovene: orakelj
• Spanish: oráculo
• Swedish: orakel
• Turkish: orakl, orakul, ırkıl, kâhin
• Ukrainian: оракул (orakul)

References

• oraculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oraculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “oraculum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “oraculum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to consult an oracle: oraculum consulere
    
  • to ask for an oracular response: oraculum petere (ab aliquo)
    
  • to give an oracular response: oraculum dare, edere
    
  • an oracle given by the Delphian Apollo (Apollo Pythius): oraculum Pythium (Pythicum)
    
• oraculum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin