Noun: vadum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | vadī |
| Plural | vadōrum |
Sample Sentences
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[…] 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.) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.6]
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DĀVUS: Omnis rēs est iam in vadō. (DAVUS: The whole affair is now in shallow water.
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(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.)) [166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 845]
Nouns inflected like vadum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-óm
4. Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm
5. Proto-Italic *waðom
6. Latin vadum
7. 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). See: Old English Nouns '
wadan'.
Verbs referencing "vadum"
Romanian Nouns
vad, Portuguese Nouns
vau, Italian Nouns
vado, Icelandic Nouns
vað, Italian Nouns
guado, Catalan Nouns
gual, French Nouns
gué, Galician Nouns
vao, Old Portuguese Nouns
vao.
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