noun · neutersecond declension
suīcīdium
suīcīdium n (genitive suīcīdiī)
Meaning
- New Latinsuicide
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | suīcīdium | suīcīdia |
| genitive | suīcīdiī | suīcīdiōrum |
| dative | suīcīdiō | suīcīdiīs |
| accusative | suīcīdium | suīcīdia |
| ablative | suīcīdiō | suīcīdiīs |
| vocative | suīcīdium | suīcīdia |
Origins
From suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”). Its use in modern Romance languages and New Latin is attested later than, and perhaps ultimately from, English suicide. Suicida (“self-killer”), from suī + -cīda (“killer”), is attested in Walter of Saint Victor's Contra quatuor labyrinthos Franciae (c. 1177), but both suicidium and suicida were otherwise unfound throughout the Middle Ages.
Descendants
- Catalansuïcidi
- Frenchsuicide
- Italiansuicidio
- Portuguesesuicídio
- Romaniansuicid
- Spanishsuicidio
- Asturiansuicidiu
- Friuliansuicidi
- Galiciansuicidio
- Russianсуици́д
In English words that came into English from suīcīdium
- suicidesuīcīdium