obloquium

Latin

Etymology

From obloquor (“to gainsay, contradict”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

obloquium n (genitive obloquiī or obloquī); second declension

  1. a contradiction

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative obloquium obloquia
Genitive obloquiī
obloquī1		 obloquiōrum
Dative obloquiō obloquiīs
Accusative obloquium obloquia
Ablative obloquiō obloquiīs
Vocative obloquium obloquia

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

References
  • “obloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • obloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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