aequilavium

== Latin == === Etymology === Perhaps aequus (“equal; even”) +‎ lavō (“wash”) +‎ -ium, describing how wool loses half it weight after washing. Compare to the semantically similar solox. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ae̯.kʷɪˈɫa.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.kʷiˈlaː.vi.um] === Noun === aequilavium n (genitive aequilaviī or aequilavī); second declension (of wool) half of the whole ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “aequilavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "aequilavium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “aequilavium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.