stillicidium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin stillicidium. === Noun === stillicidium (uncountable) (medicine, obsolete) A morbid trickling. (law, historical) An urban servitude in Ancient Rome, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour. Synonym: stillicide == Latin == === Etymology === From stīlla (“drop”) + cadō (“fall”) + -ium. === Noun === stīllicidium n (genitive stīllicidiī or stīllicidī); second declension liquid (especially rainwater) falling drop by drop ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: estalzim → English: stillicide → Italian: stillicidio === References === “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “stillicidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "stillicidium", 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) “stillicidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “stillicidium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “stillicidium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin