latrocinium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === latrōnicium (Late Latin metathesized form) === Etymology === From latrōcinor (“to rob, to fight for pay”) +‎ -ium, from Latin latrō (“mercenary, brigand”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫa.troːˈkɪ.ni.ũː], [ɫat.roːˈkɪ.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [la.troˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um], [lat.roˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um] === Noun === latrōcinium n (genitive latrōciniī or latrōcinī); second declension military service for pay (figuratively) robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering an act of banditry or brigandage band of robbers villany, roguery, fraud (Ecclesiastical Latin, derogatory) an illegitimate church council, especially the Second Council of Ephesus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== latrōnicium ==== Descendants ==== Old French: larrecin, larcin French: larcin → English: larceny Borrowings: → English: Latrocinium, latrociny → Italian: ladrocinio, latrocinio → Portuguese: latrocínio → Spanish: latrocinio === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “latrocĭnium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 202 === Further reading === “latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “latrocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "latrocinium", 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) “latrocinium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. latrocinium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “latrocinium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin