spolium

English

Noun

spolium (uncountable)

  1. The property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.

Latin

Etymology

Referred to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel-. See English spill.

Noun

spolium n (genitive spoliī); second declension

  1. the skin or hide of an animal stripped off
  2. (transf.) the arms or armor stripped from a defeated enemy
    1. booty, prey, spoil

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative spolium spolia
Genitive spoliī spoliōrum
Dative spoliō spoliīs
Accusative spolium spolia
Ablative spoliō spoliīs
Vocative spolium spolia

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • spolium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • spolium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • spolium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • spolium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • spoil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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