strategema

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρατήγημα (stratḗgēma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /stra.teːˈɡeː.ma/, [s̠t̪rät̪eːˈɡeːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stra.teˈd͡ʒe.ma/, [st̪rät̪eˈd͡ʒɛːmä]

Noun

stratēgēma n (genitive stratēgēmatis); third declension

1. (military) a stratagem
2. (by extension) any artifice, trickery

   Synonyms: dēceptiō, fraus, maleficium, perfidia, dolus, ars

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	stratēgēma	stratēgēmata
genitive	stratēgēmatis	stratēgēmatum
dative	stratēgēmatī	stratēgēmatibus
accusative	stratēgēma	stratēgēmata
ablative	stratēgēmate	stratēgēmatibus
vocative	stratēgēma	stratēgēmata

Related terms

• stratēgēmaticus
• stratēgēum
• stratēgica
• stratēgus

Descendants

• Catalan: estratagema
• Old French: stratageme
  • → Middle English: *stratageme
    • English: stratagem
  • French: stratagème
• Italian: stratagemma
• Portuguese: estratagema
• Sicilian: strataggema
• Spanish: estratagema

References

• “strategema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “strategema”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• strategema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.