viaticum

English

Etymology

From Latin viāticum (“travelling-money, provisions for a journey”), from viāticus (“of a road or journey”), from via (“road”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /vʌɪˈatɪkəm/

Noun

viaticum (plural viaticums or viatica)

  1. The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 37:
      from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.
  2. Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey (often figurative).
    • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 20:
      Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate
    • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin 2004, p. 184:
      That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something
  3. A portable altar.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter form of the adjective viāticus (“pertaining to a journey or traveling”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /wiˈaː.ti.kum/, [wɪˈaː.tɪ.kũ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈa.ti.kum/, [viˈaː.ti.kum]

Noun

viāticum n (genitive viāticī); second declension

  1. travelling-money; provision for a journey
  2. (figuratively) a journey
  3. resources; means
  4. money made abroad, especially as a soldier, or used to travel abroad

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative viāticum viātica
genitive viāticī viāticōrum
dative viāticō viāticīs
accusative viāticum viātica
ablative viāticō viāticīs
vocative viāticum viātica

Derived terms

  • viāticātus
  • viāticulum

Descendants

References

  • viaticum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • viaticum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • viaticum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • viaticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • viaticum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • viaticum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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