stillicidium

English

Etymology

Latin stillicidium

Noun

stillicidium (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A morbid trickling.
2. (law, historical) An urban servitude in Ancient Rome, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour.

   Synonym: stillicide

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Latin

Etymology

From stīlla (“drop”) +‎ cadō (“fall”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

stīllicidium n (genitive stīllicidiī or stīllicidī); second declension

1. liquid (especially rainwater) falling drop by drop

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stīllicidium	stīllicidia
Genitive	stīllicidiī stīllicidī1	stīllicidiōrum
Dative	stīllicidiō	stīllicidiīs
Accusative	stīllicidium	stīllicidia
Ablative	stīllicidiō	stīllicidiīs
Vocative	stīllicidium	stīllicidia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: estalzim
• → English: stillicide
• → Italian: stillicidio

References

• “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stillicidium 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)
• stillicidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “stillicidium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stillicidium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin