Talk:Spoliarium

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Is it "the spolarium" or just "spolarium"? --Noypi380 10:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

More importantly, is it "Spoliarium" or "Spolarium". I remember seeing it at the National Museum and having a mental note that it's spelled with an extra "i". --seav 10:26, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

Possible from spola 'hope' or the godess Spes.--Jondel 05:30, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

It sounds like it's more related to the following Latin words:

• spoliatio - [the act of] plundering, looting, stripping, robbing (noun. note: it looks like this is more like it)
• spolio - to strip, plunder, despoil, rob, loot (verb)
• spolium - spoils, plunder, booty (n.)

I used this online dictionary. The suffix -ium is found on Latin noun conjugations, and, if I'm not mistaken, in this case the prefix indicates the possessive case (I don't have my Latin book with me now, so I'll elaborate more as soon as I get home :-) --- Tito Pao 19:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC)