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Latin
Etymology
Said by Servius to derive from avis on account of the many birds who roosted there.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aventīnus m sg (genitive Aventīnī); second declension
- The Aventine Hill, one of the Seven hills of Rome.
- (Roman mythology) A mythological king of Alba Longa, son of Romulus Silvius, father of Procas, great-great-grandfather of Romulus and Remus
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- Aventinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Aventinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “Aventinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press