aquilicium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === aquaelicium (with dubious formation) === Etymology === From aqua (“water”) + laciō (“to entice”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.kʷɪˈlɪ.ki.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.kʷiˈliː.t͡ʃi.um] === Noun === aquilicium n (genitive aquiliciī or aquilicī); second declension a mean (sacrifice) to produce rain, a supplication for rain ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “aquaelicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aquilicium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. aquaelicium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung