Brundisium

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βρεντέσιον (Brentésion), said to be from a Messapic word for the head of a male deer, possibly based on the shape of the port.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Brundisium n sg (genitive Brundisiī or Brundisī); second declension

  1. Brindisi (a city in southern Italy)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Brundisium
genitive Brundisiī
Brundisī1
dative Brundisiō
accusative Brundisium
ablative Brundisiō
vocative Brundisium
locative Brundisiī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • Brundisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Brundisium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.