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Etymology

Uncertain;[1] perhaps from Proto-Italic *autiom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewtyom (forlorn, deserted), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew (off, away from).

Pronunciation

Noun

ōtium n (genitive ōtiī or ōtī); second declension

  1. time free from activity: leisure, free time
  2. time avoiding activity: idleness, inactivity
    Synonyms: dēsidia, pigritia, segnitia, ignavia, inertia, sōcordia
    Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās
  3. peace, quiet, quietness
    Synonyms: quies, tranquillitas, serenitas, pax
  4. ease

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative ōtium ōtia
genitive ōtiī
ōtī1
ōtiōrum
dative ōtiō ōtiīs
accusative ōtium ōtia
ablative ōtiō ōtiīs
vocative ōtium ōtia

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

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • otium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • otium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • otium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be at leisure: otium habere
    • to be a lover of ease, leisure: otium sequi, amplexari
    • (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
    • to retire into private life: in otium se referre (Fam. 99)
    • (ambiguous) to be at leisure: in otio esse or vivere
    • (ambiguous) to be at leisure: otio frui
    • (ambiguous) to have abundance of leisure: otio abundare
    • (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
    • (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: (in) otio languere et hebescere
    • (ambiguous) to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin otium.

Noun

otium n (definite singular otiet or otiumet, indefinite plural otier, definite plural otia or otiene)

  1. rest, leisure

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin otium.

Noun

otium n (plural otiet)

  1. rest, leisure

References