Agyrium
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀγύριον (Agúrion), whence also the name of its tyrant, Ἄγυρις (Águris).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈɡy.ri.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈd͡ʒi.ri.um/,
Proper noun
Agyrium n sg (genitive Agyriī or Agyrī); second declension
- Agira/San Filippo d'Argiriò, a former Sicel city near Enna, Sicily later colonized by the Greeks before its occupation by the Romans, birthplace of Diodorus Siculus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Agyrium |
| genitive | Agyriī Agyrī1 |
| dative | Agyriō |
| accusative | Agyrium |
| ablative | Agyriō |
| vocative | Agyrium |
| locative | Agyriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: Agira
References
- “Agȳrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Agyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Agyrium” on page 101/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)