subsidium

Latin

Etymology

From sub- (“under”) +‎ sedeō (“sit”) +‎ -ium; see also subsīdō (“crouch down, settle down, squat”).

Noun

subsidium n (genitive subsidiī or subsidī); second declension

  1. help, support, aid, relief
    Synonyms: adiumentum, adiūtus, ops, auxilium, fidēs, praesidium
  2. reinforcement
  3. reserve (troops)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative subsidium subsidia
Genitive subsidiī
subsidī1		 subsidiōrum
Dative subsidiō subsidiīs
Accusative subsidium subsidia
Ablative subsidiō subsidiīs
Vocative subsidium subsidia

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

Descendants

References
  • “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “subsidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • subsidium 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)
  • subsidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be prepared for all that may come: ad omnes casus subsidia comparare
    • to send relief to some one: subsidium alicui summittere
    • to station reserve troops: subsidia collocare
    • to send up reserves: subsidia summittere
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