Bruttium

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Bruttium.

Proper noun

Bruttium

  1. (historical) A former district of southern Italy in the time of the Roman Empire.

Latin

Southern Italy in 280 B.C.E.

Etymology

From Bruttiī, the name of the local tribe.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bruttium n sg (genitive Bruttiī or Bruttī); second declension

  1. An ancient district in southern Italy that spreads from Lucania to the Sicilian straits corresponding to the region of Calabria

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

singular
nominative Bruttium
genitive Bruttiī
Bruttī1
dative Bruttiō
accusative Bruttium
ablative Bruttiō
vocative Bruttium

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

References

  • “Bruttium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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