otium

Of uncertain origin;[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtyom (“forlorn, deserted”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (“away from”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.ti.um/, [ˈoː.ti.ũ]

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ōtium n (genitive ōtiī); second declension

1. time free from activity: leisure
2. time avoiding activity: idleness, inactivity
   • 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga

     Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays

3. peace, quiet

Second declension.

• Note: Occasionally gen. s. is written oti.
  • w:Cicero:

    cum et oti ad scribendum plus ... habueris

    w:Epistulae ad Atticum, 1.

• negōtium
• ōtiōsus

• Catalan: oci
• Italian: ozio
• Portuguese: ócio
• Spanish: ocio

• otium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• otium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• otium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be at leisure: otium habere
    
  • to be a lover of ease, leisure: otium sequi, amplexari
    
  • (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
    
  • to retire into private life: in otium se referre (Fam. 99)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be at leisure: in otio esse or vivere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be at leisure: otio frui
    
  • (ambiguous) to have abundance of leisure: otio abundare
    
  • (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: (in) otio languere et hebescere
    
  • (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere