adagium

adagium

• A later variant of adagio, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) +‎ aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) +‎ agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō, contāgiō/contāgēs, as well as the fact that Varro associates it with ambāgiō, a variant of ambāgēs (“circumlocution”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈdaː.ɡi.ũː], [aˈda.ɡi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈdaː.d͡ʒi.um]

Note: the length of the vowel is unattested.

Noun

adā̆gium n (genitive adā̆giī or adā̆gī); second declension

1. proverb, adage

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	adā̆gium	adā̆gia
genitive	adā̆giī adā̆gī1	adā̆giōrum
dative	adā̆giō	adā̆giīs
accusative	adā̆gium	adā̆gia
ablative	adā̆giō	adā̆giīs
vocative	adā̆gium	adā̆gia

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