aucupium

Latin

Etymology

From auceps (“bird-catcher, fowler”) +‎ -ium. Compare aucupor (“to go bird-catching”).

Noun

aucupium n (genitive aucupiī or aucupī); second declension

  1. wildfowling

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative aucupium aucupia
genitive aucupiī
aucupī1 		aucupiōrum
dative aucupiō aucupiīs
accusative aucupium aucupia
ablative aucupiō aucupiīs
vocative aucupium aucupia

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

References

  • “aucupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aucupium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aucupium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • aucupium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • minute, pedantic carping at words: verborum aucupium or captatio
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