sandalium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Noun

sandalium n (genitive sandaliī or sandalī); second declension

1. slipper
2. synonym of solea: sandal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sandalium	sandalia
genitive	sandaliī sandalī1	sandaliōrum
dative	sandaliō	sandaliīs
accusative	sandalium	sandalia
ablative	sandaliō	sandaliīs
vocative	sandalium	sandalia

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

Descendants

• Sicilian: sànnalu

• Borrowings:
  • → Spanish: sandalia

References

• “sandalium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sandalium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sandalium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sandalium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sandalium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “sandalium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin