Cantium

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Latin

Etymology

From Brythonic *Cantio, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cantium n sg (genitive Cantiī or Cantī); second declension

  1. a promontory in England (now Kent)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Cantium
Genitive Cantiī
Cantī1
Dative Cantiō
Accusative Cantium
Ablative Cantiō
Vocative Cantium

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: Canzio
  • → Old English: Cent

References

  • “Cantium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Cantium” in Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
  • Cantium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
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