vadum
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From Proto-Italic *waðom , from Proto-Indo-European *uh2dhóm (compare Proto-Germanic *wadą ), from the root *weh2dh- , the same source as vādō . Cognate with Old English wadan (whence English wade ).[1]
Alternative forms
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Classical Latin ) IPA (key): [ˈwa.dũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA (key): [ˈvaː.dum]
Noun
[edit ]vadum n (genitive vadī ); second declension
- A shallow, ford, shoal
- c. 52 BCE , Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.6:
- [...] alterum per prōvinciam nostram, multō facilius atque expedītius, proptereā quod inter fīnēs Helvētiōrum et Allobrogum, quī nūper pācātī erant, Rhodanus fluit, isque nōn nūllīs locīs vadō trānsītur.
- The other [route] was through our province, much easier and more unobstructed, because between the territories of the Helvetii and the Allobroges, who had been recently subdued, the Rhone flows, and that [river] is crossed by a ford in not a few places.
- [...] alterum per prōvinciam nostram, multō facilius atque expedītius, proptereā quod inter fīnēs Helvētiōrum et Allobrogum, quī nūper pācātī erant, Rhodanus fluit, isque nōn nūllīs locīs vadō trānsītur.
- A body of water; sea, stream
- The bottom of a body of water
- (figuratively ) a "shallow" as a metaphor for circumstances implying either safety or danger, similar to a boat in shallow water
- 166 BCE , Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 845:
- DĀVUS: Omnis rēs est iam in vadō.
- DAVUS: The whole affair is now in shallow water.
(In context, the idiom conveys both safety and danger — the play has reached a high point of comic tension — yet Davus is confident that things will resolve favorably.)
- DAVUS: The whole affair is now in shallow water.
- DĀVUS: Omnis rēs est iam in vadō.
Declension
[edit ]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vadum | vada |
| genitive | vadī | vadōrum |
| dative | vadō | vadīs |
| accusative | vadum | vada |
| ablative | vadō | vadīs |
| vocative | vadum | vada |
Derived terms
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[edit ]Etymology 2
[edit ]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit ]vadum
References
[edit ]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), "vādō, -ere (> Derivatives: > vadum)", in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 650
Further reading
[edit ]- "vadum", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "vadum", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "vadum", 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)
- "vadum", in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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