obsidium
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Etymology 1
From obsideō (“besiege, beset”) + -ium.
Noun
obsidium n (genitive obsidiī or obsidī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From obses (“hostage”) + -ium.
Noun
obsidium n (genitive obsidiī); second declension
Related terms
Etymology 3
Noun
obsidium
References
- “obsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obsidium 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)
- obsidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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