negotium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === negōcium (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From nec (“not”) +‎ ōtium (“leisure”), perhaps a calque of Ancient Greek ἀσχολίᾱ (askholíā, “lack of leisure; business, occupation”), though if indeed a calque, it is strange that the Greek was not calqued as *in-ōtium instead. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɛˈɡoː.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [neˈɡɔt.t͡si.um] === Noun === negōtium n (genitive negōtiī or negōtī); second declension business, employment, occupation, affair Synonyms: mūnus, ministerium, officium, cūra, cūrātiō (figuratively) difficulty, pains, trouble, labor (figuratively) matter, thing (= πρᾶγμα (prâgma)) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “negotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “negotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "negotium", 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) “negotium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.