adonidium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === adōnium === Etymology === Apparently the neuter substantive of alternative adjectival construction *adōnidius, built on the genitive stem of Adōnid-, Adōnis. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.doːˈnɪ.di.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.doˈniː.di.um] === Noun === adōnidium n (genitive adōnidiī or adōnidī); second declension alternative form of adōnium (“type of meter”) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Adonidia (perhaps) === References === “adōnidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adonidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.