stillicidium

Latin

Etymology

stilla (“drop”) + cado (“fall”)

Noun

stillicidium n (genitive stillicidiī); second declension

1. water (especially rain) falling drop by drop

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	stillicidium	stillicidia
genitive	stillicidiī	stillicidiōrum
dative	stillicidiō	stillicidiīs
accusative	stillicidium	stillicidia
ablative	stillicidiō	stillicidiīs
vocative	stillicidium	stillicidia

Descendants

• 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, 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