obsequium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === opsequium === Etymology === From obsequor (“submit to, yield to”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔpˈsɛ.kʷi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [obˈsɛː.kʷi.um] === Noun === obsequium n (genitive obsequiī or obsequī); second declension complaisance, yielding, compliance, obedience; allegiance; deference, obsequiousness, flattery ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== (allegiance): dēvōtiō (deference): observantia ==== Derived terms ==== obsequiālis obsequiōsus ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “obsequium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “obsequium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "obsequium", 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) “obsequium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.