indicium

Etymology

From Latin indicium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɪʃɪəm/, /ɪnˈdɪsɪəm/

Noun

indicium (plural indicia or indiciums)

1. An indication; a sign.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 431:

     that dim continuum cannot be as sensually groped for, tasted, harkened to, as Veen's Hollow between rhythmic beats; but it shares with it one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.

Etymology

From index (“indicator”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.ki.um/, [ɪnˈdɪ.ki.ũ]

Noun

indicium n (genitive indiciī); second declension

1. information, evidence, discovery, notice
2. reward for information
3. indication, sign, proof, token

References

• indicium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indicium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• indicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• indicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • this shows, proves..: documento, indicio est (without demonstr. pron. but cui rei documento, indicio est)