Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Substantivized neuter of dubius (doubtful).

Noun

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dubium n (genitive dubiī or dubī); second declension

  1. doubt
  2. A doctrinal question that is asked to Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and which later receives a responsa.
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dubium dubia
genitive dubiī
dubī1
dubiōrum
dative dubiō dubiīs
accusative dubium dubia
ablative dubiō dubiīs
vocative dubium dubia

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

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Descendants
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  • Italian: dubbio
  • Piedmontese: dubi
  • Romanian: dubiu
  • Dutch: in dubio

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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dubium

  1. inflection of dubius:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

References

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  • dubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dubium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • dubium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to throw doubt upon a thing: in dubium vocare
    • (ambiguous) to become doubtful: in dubium venire
    • (ambiguous) to leave a thing undecided: aliquid dubium, incertum relinquere