sonivius
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sonus (“sound”, “noise”) + -īvus + -ius. Compare lixīvus, lixīvius.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /soˈniː.u̯i.us/, [s̠ɔˈniːu̯iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈni.vi.us/, [soˈniːvius]
Adjective
[edit]sonīvius (feminine sonīvia, neuter sonīvium); first/second-declension adjective
- (in augural language, attested modifying tripudium only) noisy (of the rattling of the corn upon the ground as it fell from the mouths of the sacred chickens)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cato the Elder to this entry?)
- 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 6.6.7.6:
- non igitur ex alitis involatu nec e cantu sinistro oscinis, ut in nostra disciplina est, nec ex tripudiis solistimis aut soniviis tibi auguror, sed habeo alia signa quae observem; quae etsi non sunt certiora illis, minus tamen habent vel obscuritatis vel erroris.
- I make a prediction to you, not from the flight of a bird and not from the singing on the left of a bird, in the manner of our system (of augury), nor from the most favorable or noisy eating from the ground (of the sacred birds), but I have other signs that I observe, which though they are not more certain than those, yet nevertheless have less of obscurity or error.
- non igitur ex alitis involatu nec e cantu sinistro oscinis, ut in nostra disciplina est, nec ex tripudiis solistimis aut soniviis tibi auguror, sed habeo alia signa quae observem; quae etsi non sunt certiora illis, minus tamen habent vel obscuritatis vel erroris.
- AD 77–79, C. Plinius Secundus (aut.), K.F.T. Mayhoff (ed.), Naturalis Historia (1906), bk XV, ch. xxviii:
- quae causa eas nuptiis fecit religiosas, tot modis fetu munito, quod est veri similius quam quia cadendo tripudium sonivium faciant.
- It is for this reason that this fruit has been looked upon as a symbol consecrated to marriage, its offspring being thus protected in such manifold ways: an explanation which bears a much greater air of probability than that which would derive it from the rattling which it makes when it bounds from the floor. ― translation from: J. Bostock and H.T. Riley, The Natural History (1855), bk XV, ch. xxiv (xxii)
- quae causa eas nuptiis fecit religiosas, tot modis fetu munito, quod est veri similius quam quia cadendo tripudium sonivium faciant.
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 290, lines 31-32:
- Sonivio significat in carmine augurali, sonanti.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ibidem, page 297, lines 19–22:
- Sonivium tripudium, ut ait Appius Pulcher, quod sonet, cum pullo excidit plus, quadrupedive.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sonivius.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | sonīvius | sonīvia | sonīvium | sonīviī | sonīviae | sonīvia | |
Genitive | sonīviī | sonīviae | sonīviī | sonīviōrum | sonīviārum | sonīviōrum | |
Dative | sonīviō | sonīviō | sonīviīs | ||||
Accusative | sonīvium | sonīviam | sonīvium | sonīviōs | sonīviās | sonīvia | |
Ablative | sonīviō | sonīviā | sonīviō | sonīviīs | |||
Vocative | sonīvie | sonīvia | sonīvium | sonīviī | sonīviae | sonīvia |
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “sŏnĭvĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sonivius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sŏnĭvĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,457/3.
- “sonīuius” on page 1,791/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)