obsequium

Latin

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Etymology

From obsequor (“submit to, yield to”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

obsequium n (genitive obsequiī or obsequī); second declension

  1. complaisance, yielding, compliance; deference, allegiance, obedience, obsequiousness.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative obsequium obsequia
Genitive obsequiī
obsequī1		 obsequiōrum
Dative obsequiō obsequiīs
Accusative obsequium obsequia
Ablative obsequiō obsequiīs
Vocative obsequium obsequia

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

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Descendants
  • Catalan: obsequi
  • Galician: obsequio
  • Italian: ossequio
  • Portuguese: obséquio
  • Spanish: obsequio

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