indicium

English

Etymology

From Latin indicium.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdɪʃɪəm/, /ɪnˈdɪsɪəm/

Noun

indicium (plural indicia or indiciums)

  1. An indication; a sign.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 431:
      that dim continuum cannot be as sensually groped for, tasted, harkened to, as Veen's Hollow between rhythmic beats; but it shares with it one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.

Latin

Etymology

From index (indicator), from indicō (point out, indicate, show), from in (in, at, on; into) + dicō (indicate; dedicate; set apart).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈdi.ki.um/, [ɪnˈdɪ.ki.ʊ̃]

Noun

indicium n (genitive indiciī or indicī); second declension

  1. information, evidence, discovery, notice
  2. reward for information
  3. indication, sign, proof, token

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative indicium indicia
Genitive indiciī
indicī1
indiciōrum
Dative indiciō indiciīs
Accusative indicium indicia
Ablative indiciō indiciīs
Vocative indicium indicia

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

Descendants

See also

References

  • indicium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • indicium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • indicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • indicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)
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