Durius

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Latin

Etymology

Latinized Celtic name, from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water”).

The river between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dūrius m sg (genitive Dūriī or Dūrī); second declension

  1. Douro (a river in Portugal and Spain)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Dūrius
genitive Dūriī
Dūrī1
dative Dūriō
accusative Dūrium
ablative Dūriō
vocative Dūrī

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

Descendants

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: Doiro, Doyro
    • Portuguese: Douro
  • Spanish: Duero

References

  • “Durius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Durius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Durius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Durius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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