suovetaurilia

• suovitaurilia

Unadapted borrowing from Latin suovetaurīlia.

suovetaurilia (plural suovetaurilias)

1. A religious rite of Ancient Rome, the triple sacrifice of a pig, a ram, and a bull to the deity Mars in order to bless and purify land.

Borrowed from Latin suovetaurīlia.

• IPA^(key): /su.o.ve.tawˈri.lja/
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: su‧o‧ve‧tau‧rì‧lia

suovetaurilia m pl

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) suovetaurilia

• suino
• ovino
• toro

• suovitaurīlia, solitaurilia

From sūs (“pig”) +‎ ovis (“sheep”) +‎ taurus (“bull”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /su.o.u̯e.tau̯ˈriː.li.a/, [s̠uou̯ɛt̪äu̯ˈriːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /su.o.ve.tau̯ˈri.li.a/, [suovet̪äu̯ˈriːliä]

suovetaurīlia n pl (genitive suovetaurīlium); third declension

1. (religion) The ritual sacrifice of a pig, a ram and a bull to the god Mars; suovetaurilia
   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura 141.1:

     Agrum lustrare sic oportet. Impera suovitaurilia circumagi: […]

     It is necessary to purify the field like this. Order the suovetaurilia to be brought around [the field]: […]

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

• → English: suovetaurilia, suovitaurilia (learned)
• → Italian: suovetaurilia (learned)

• suovetaurilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “suovetaurilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suovetaurilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “suovetaurilia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “suovetaurilia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin