classicum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫas.sɪ.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklas.si.kum]

Adjective

classicum

1. nominative neuter singular of classicus

Noun

classicum n (genitive classicī); second declension

1. (military) a field signal given on the trumpet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	classicum	classica
genitive	classicī	classicōrum
dative	classicō	classicīs
accusative	classicum	classica
ablative	classicō	classicīs
vocative	classicum	classica

Descendants

Through Vulgar Latin *classum:

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: chiasso
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: ciass
• Gallo-Romance:
  • French: glas

References

• “classicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “classicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "classicum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “classicum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
  • (ambiguous) the trumpet sounds for the attack: classicum canit (B. C. 3. 82)
    
• “classicum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “classicum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin