plebiscitum
English
Etymology
From Latin plēbiscītum, from plēbs, plēbis (“common people”) + scītum (“decree”). Compare plebiscite.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌplɛbəˈsaɪtəm/, /ˌplibəˈsaɪtəm/
Noun
plebiscitum (plural plebiscitums or plebiscita)
- (historical, Roman antiquity) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
- Still worse went it with another individual; doomed, by extempore Plebiscitum, to the Lanterne;
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Quotations
- 1894, Constance Garnett (translator); Leo Tolstoy (author), The Kingdom of God is Within You, Kshetra Books, →ISBN, page 87:
- The propositions of M. du Camp are as follows: […] 3. No war to be declared before it has been submitted to a plebiscitum of the nations preparing to take part in it.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plebiscitum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pleː.bisˈkiː.tum/, [pɫ̪eːbɪs̠ˈkiːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ple.biʃˈʃi.tum/, [plebiʃˈʃiːt̪um]
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | plēbiscītum | plēbiscīta |
| Genitive | plēbiscītī | plēbiscītōrum |
| Dative | plēbiscītō | plēbiscītīs |
| Accusative | plēbiscītum | plēbiscīta |
| Ablative | plēbiscītō | plēbiscītīs |
| Vocative | plēbiscītum | plēbiscīta |
Descendants
- Catalan: plebiscit
- English: plebiscite
- French: plébiscite
- Galician: plebiscito
- German: Plebiszit
- Italian: plebiscito
- Portuguese: plebiscito
- Spanish: plebiscito
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