suspendium

From suspendō +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊsˈpɛn.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [susˈpɛn.di.um]

suspendium n (genitive suspendiī or suspendī); second declension

1. (sometimes in the plural) the hanging of oneself
   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 1:

     Tun illam ducas? Hercle me suspendio
     quam tu eius potior fias satiust mortuom.

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   • 54 BCE, Cicero, Pro Aemilio Scauro 10:

     negotium dedisse liberto ut illi aniculae non ille quidem vim adferret […] sed collum digitulis duobus oblideret, resticula cingeret, ut illa perisse suspendio putaretur.

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   • 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 1.12.17:

     Praebuit illa arbor misero suspendia collo,

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   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Augusti 65:

     Certe cum sub idem tempus una ex consciis liberta Phoebe suspendio vitam finisset, maluisse se ait Phoebes patrem fuisse.

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “suspendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suspendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "suspendium", 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)
• “suspendium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.