contubernium

From con- (“with, shared”) + taberna (“hut; tent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.tuˈber.ni.um/, [kɔn.tʊˈbɛr.ni.ũ]

contubernium n (genitive contuberniī); second declension

1. (historical military) A squad of soldiers sharing a single tent, usually 6–8 men.
2. attendance (in war)
3. attendance, accompanying (of teachers, friends, etc.)
4. marriage of slaves
5. a dwelling together (referring to animals)
6. a dwelling of different persons
7. (in general) household, company

Second declension.

• (unit of soldiers): centuria (10 contubernia); cohors (60 contubernia); legio (notionally 600 contubernia)

• contubernālis

• Portuguese: contubérnio

• contubernium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contubernium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contubernium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• contubernium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• contubernium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contubernium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin