litigium

Latin

Etymology

From līs (“quarrel”) +‎ agō +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [liːˈtɪ.ɡi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈt̪iː.d͡ʒi.um]

Noun

lītigium n (genitive lītigiī or lītigī); second declension

1. quarrel

   Synonyms: iūrgium, rixa

2. litigation

   Synonym: lītigātiō

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lītigium	lītigia
genitive	lītigiī lītigī1	lītigiōrum
dative	lītigiō	lītigiīs
accusative	lītigium	lītigia
ablative	lītigiō	lītigiīs
vocative	lītigium	lītigia

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

Descendants

• → French: litige (learned)
• → Italian: litigio (learned)
• → Spanish: litigio (learned)

References

• “litigium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• litigium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “litigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• litigium, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011