viaticum

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin viāticum (travelling-money, provisions for a journey), from viāticus (of a road or journey), from via (road). Doublet of voyage.

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Noun[edit]

viaticum (plural viaticums or viatica)

  1. (especially Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (nonfiction), Folio Society; republished as Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England, Penguin Books, 2003, →ISBN, page 37:
      [] from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.
  2. (often figurative) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
  3. A portable altar.
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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Substantivization of the neuter form of the adjective viāticus (pertaining to a journey or traveling).

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Noun[edit]

viāticum n (genitive viāticī); second declension

  1. travelling-money; provision for a journey
  2. (figuratively) a journey
  3. resources; means
  4. money made abroad, especially as a soldier, or used to travel abroad

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative viāticum viātica
Genitive viāticī viāticōrum
Dative viāticō viāticīs
Accusative viāticum viātica
Ablative viāticō viāticīs
Vocative viāticum viātica

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References[edit]

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