# viaticum
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /vʌɪˈatɪkəm/

### Noun

viaticum (plural viaticums or viatica)
* (especially Catholicism) 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 (nonfiction), Folio Society; republished as Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England, Penguin Books, 2003, →ISBN, page 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.
* (often figurative) Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey.
** 1885, “Night 20”, in Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (fiction), Kama Shastra Society, translation of أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ [ʔalfu laylatin walaylatun, One Thousand and One Nights] (in Arabic); republished 1978, →ISBN: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 (fiction), Jonathan Cape; republished Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN, page 184:That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something.
* A portable altar.
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

#### Translations
### Further reading

* viaticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯iˈaː.ti.kum/, [u̯iˈäːt̪ɪkʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /viˈa.ti.kum/, [viˈäːt̪ikum]

### Noun

viāticum n (genitive viāticī); second declension
* travelling-money; provision for a journey
* (figuratively) a journey
* resources; means
* money made abroad, especially as a soldier, or used to travel abroad

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* viāticātus
* viāticulum

#### Related terms

* via
* viāticus
* viātor, viatrix
* viātōrius

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: viàtic (learned)
* → English: viaticum
* → French: viatique
* → German: Viatikum
* → Italian: viatico
* Old French: voiage
** Anglo-Norman: viage
*** → Middle English: viage
**** ⇒ English: voyage (influenced by Modern French)
** French: voyage
*** → Romanian: voiaj
* Old Occitan: viatge
** Catalan: viatge
** Occitan: viatge
** → Italian: viaggio
** → Piedmontese: viagi
** → Portuguese: viagem (or through Catalan)
** → Sicilian: viaggiu
** → Spanish: viaje (or through Catalan)
*** → Cebuano: biyahe
*** → Masbatenyo: biyahe
*** → Tagalog: biyahe
* Piedmontese: viàtic
* → Portuguese: viático
* Romansch: viadi, viedi (Puter), vieadi (Sutsilvan)
* → Spanish: viático
** → Cebuano: biyatiko
** → Tagalog: biyatiko

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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