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Latin
Etymology
Compare the names Aeculanum, Aequum Tuticum and Superaequum, as well as Aequum in Illyria. Per Ribezzo, possibly from a pre-Oscan (Daunian/Messapic) substrate *aikwo (“plain”), since kw becomes p in Oscan, though this is disputed.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aecae f pl (genitive Aecārum); first declension
- An inland town in Apulia, now Troia
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “Aecae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Aecae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Aecae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Ribezzo, “Roma delle Origini, Sabini e Sabelli”, RIGI XIV 1930