praesidium
See also: Präsidium
French
Noun
praesidium m (plural praesidiums)
- Alternative spelling of présidium
Further reading
- “praesidium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From praeses.
Noun
praesidium n (genitive praesidiī or praesidī); second declension
- defence, protection, help, aid, assistance
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
- That the friendship of the Roman people ought to prove to him an ornament and a safeguard, not a detriment; and that he sought it with that expectation.
- Amicitiam populi Romani sibi ornamento et praesidio, non detrimento esse oportere, atque se hac spe petisse.
- guard, garrison, convoy, escort
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | praesidium | praesidia |
Genitive | praesidiī praesidī1 |
praesidiōrum |
Dative | praesidiō | praesidiīs |
Accusative | praesidium | praesidia |
Ablative | praesidiō | praesidiīs |
Vocative | praesidium | praesidia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Asturian: preséu
- Catalan: presidi, presídium
- French: présidium, praesidium, præsidium
- Italian: presidio
- Portuguese: presídio
- Spanish: presidio
- → English: presidio
- → Russian: президиум (prezidium)
- → English: presidium
References
- “praesidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praesidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praesidium 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)
- praesidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to protect the troops in the rear: novissimis praesidio esse
- to garrison a town: praesidiis firmare urbem
- to garrison a town: praesidium collocare in urbe
- to station posts, pickets, at intervals: praesidia, custodias disponere
- to strengthen the camp by outposts: castra praesidiis firmare
- to leave troops to guard the camp: praesidio castris milites relinquere
- to protect the troops in the rear: novissimis praesidio esse
- “praesidium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “praesidium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press