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Latin
Etymology
According to DNGI, probably from a personal name hinted by the common name suffix -inum. Probably of Eastern Italic origin, perhaps from a name ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“something bent, arrow”) and showing the Oscan and Volscian shift kw > p. The root could instead be *h₂erk- (“to lock, guard”).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Arpīnum n sg (genitive Arpīnī); second declension
- an ancient city of the Volscians, situated on a hill above the valley of the Liris and birthplace of Cicero, now Arpino
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
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References
- “Arpinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Arpinum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Arpinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992, p. 25