iurgium

Latin

Etymology

From iūrgō (“quarrel, dispute”) +‎ -ium, from iūs (“law”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯uːr.ɡi.um/, [ˈi̯uːrɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjur.d͡ʒi.um/, [ˈjurd͡ʒium]

Noun

iūrgium n (genitive iūrgiī or iūrgī); second declension

1. a quarrel, strife, dispute, altercation, contention; abuse, invective

   Synonyms: lis, rixa

2. (law) a legal dispute, a separation between husband and wife

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	iūrgium	iūrgia
genitive	iūrgiī iūrgī1	iūrgiōrum
dative	iūrgiō	iūrgiīs
accusative	iūrgium	iūrgia
ablative	iūrgiō	iūrgiīs
vocative	iūrgium	iūrgia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• iūrgiōsus

Related terms

• iūrgātōrius
• iūrgātrīx
• iūrgō

References

• “iurgium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iurgium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iurgium 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)