accendium

accendium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kend-der.
Proto-Italic *kandēō
Latin candeō
Latin accendō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin accendium

    From accendō (“to kindle, set light (a fire)”) + -ium.

    Noun

    accendium n (genitive accendiī or accendī); second declension

    1. a kindling, a setting on fire

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    singular plural
    nominative accendium accendia
    genitive accendiī
    accendī1     		accendiōrum
    dative accendiō accendiīs
    accusative accendium accendia
    ablative accendiō accendiīs
    vocative accendium accendia

    1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

    References

    • “accendĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “accendium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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