viaticum
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin viāticum (“travelling-money, provisions for a journey”), from viāticus (“of a road or journey”), from via (“road”). Doublet of voyage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]viaticum (plural viaticums or viatica)
- (especially Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (nonfiction), Folio Society; republished as Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England, Penguin Books, 2003, →ISBN, page 37:
- […] from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.
- (often figurative) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
- 1885, “Night 20”, in Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (fiction), Kama Shastra Society, translation of أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ [ʔalfu laylatin walaylatun, One Thousand and One Nights] (in Arabic); republished 1978, →ISBN:
- Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate.
- 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (fiction), Jonathan Cape; republished Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN, page 184:
- That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something.
- A portable altar.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Translations
[edit]Eucharist
supplies for journey
Further reading
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Substantivization of the neuter form of the adjective viāticus (“pertaining to a journey or travelling”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯iˈaː.ti.kum/, [u̯iˈäːt̪ɪkʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈa.ti.kum/, [viˈäːt̪ikum]
Noun
[edit]viāticum n (genitive viāticī); second declension
- travelling-money; provision for a journey
- (figuratively) a journey
- resources; means
- money made abroad, especially as a soldier, or used to travel abroad
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | viāticum | viātica |
| genitive | viāticī | viāticōrum |
| dative | viāticō | viāticīs |
| accusative | viāticum | viātica |
| ablative | viāticō | viāticīs |
| vocative | viāticum | viātica |
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “viaticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “viaticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- viaticum 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)
- viaticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “viaticum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “viaticum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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