oraculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• ōrāclum

Etymology

From ōrō (“plead, beg; pray, entreat”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːˈraː.ku.lum/, [oːˈräːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈra.ku.lum/, [oˈräːkulum]

Noun

ōrāculum n (genitive ōrāculī); second declension

1. A divine announcement, oracle.
2. A prophetic declaration; prophecy.
3. A place where oracular responses were given; oracle.
4. An oracular saying, maxim.
5. An imperial rescript.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ōrāculum	ōrācula
genitive	ōrāculī	ōrāculōrum
dative	ōrāculō	ōrāculīs
accusative	ōrāculum	ōrācula
ablative	ōrāculō	ōrāculīs
vocative	ōrāculum	ōrācula

Derived terms

• ōrāculārius

Related terms

Related terms

• ōrābilis
• ōrātiō
• ōrātiuncula
• ōrātor
• ōrātōriē
• ōrātōrius
• ōrātrīx
• ōrātum
• ōrātus
• ōrō

Descendants

• Italian: oracolo m (via Late, Medieval Latin)
• Old French: oracle m
  • Middle French: oracle m
    • French: oracle m
    • → Middle English: oracle
      • English: oracle
      • Scots: oracle
• → Afrikaans: orakel
• → Basque: orakulu
• → Bulgarian: оракул (orakul)
• → Catalan: oracle m
• → Czech: orákulum n
• → Danish: orakel
• → Dutch: orakel n
• → Esperanto: orakolo
• → Estonian: oraakel
• → Finnish: oraakkeli
• → German: Orakel n
• → Hungarian: orákulum
• → Ido: oraklo
• → Interlingua: oraculo
• → Italian: oracolo m
  • → Romanian: oracol n
• → Latvian: orākuls
• → Lithuanian: orakulas
• → Luxembourgish: Orakel
• → Macedonian: оракул m (orakul)
• → Norwegian: orakel
• >? Occitan: oracle m
• → Portuguese: (semi-learned) orago m, oráculo m
• → Russian: оракул m (orakul)
• → Serbo-Croatian: оракул
• → Slovak: orákulum
• → Slovene: orakelj
• → Spanish: oráculo m
• → Swedish: orakel
• → Turkish: orakl, orakul, ırkıl
• → Ukrainian: оракул (orakul)

References

• “oraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oraculum 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)
• oraculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to consult an oracle: oraculum consulere
    
  • to ask for an oracular response: oraculum petere (ab aliquo)
    
  • to give an oracular response: oraculum dare, edere
    
  • an oracle given by the Delphian Apollo (Apollo Pythius): oraculum Pythium (Pythicum)
    
• “oraculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin