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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κασμέναι (Kasménai).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Casmenae f pl (genitive Casmenārum); first declension
- A colony of Sicily, founded by Syracusans in 644 BC, located on the Hyblaean Mountains, near modern Buscemi
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
Descendants
References
- “Casmenae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly