contubernium

Latin

Etymology

From con- (with, shared) + taberna (hut; tent) + -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

contubernium n (genitive contuberniī or contubernī); second declension

  1. (historical military) A squad of soldiers sharing a single tent, usually 6–8 men.
  2. attendance (in war)
  3. attendance, accompanying (of teachers, friends, etc.)
  4. marriage of slaves
  5. a dwelling together (referring to animals)
  6. a dwelling of different persons
  7. (in general) household, company

Declension

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Meronyms

  • (unit of soldiers): centuria (10 contubernia); cohors (60 contubernia); legio (notionally 600 contubernia)

Descendants

  • Portuguese: contubérnio

References

  • contubernium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • contubernium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • contubernium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • contubernium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • contubernium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • contubernium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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