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vaticinium

what the soothsayer sings

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Where it lives

Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

1. *vati-cinium — de Vaan

*vati-cinium 'what the soothsayer sings'. Lat. carmen is dissimilated from *canmen. There seems to be no agreement on the PIE form of the root It is unlikely that Germanic *χαη- renders a root structure *knH-, so that we may opt either for *kan(in which case it is a non-IE root), or *kh2n-. The compounds in -cen all have a noun as their first member (the basis of siticen is unknown) except for oscen, which contains … — [de Vaan, s.v. *vati-cinium, p. 102]

2. vātĭcĭnĭum — Lewis & Short

vātĭcĭnĭum, ii, n.vaticinus,

I a prediction, prophecy (post-Aug. for vaticinatio, oraculum, praedictio), Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 178; Gell. 16, 17, 1; Lact. 1, 4, 3; 2, 10, 6; 4, 6, 3; Sulp. Sev. Chron. 2, 1, 109.

In the wild

vaticinium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 54.17
vaticinium Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.18.a
vaticinium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 127.11

Where it came from

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