Dyspontium

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δυσπόντιον (Duspóntion).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dyspontium n sg (genitive Dyspontiī or Dyspontī); second declension

  1. A town in Elis district situated on the road from Elis to Olympia

Declension

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

singular
nominative Dyspontium
genitive Dyspontiī
Dyspontī1
dative Dyspontiō
accusative Dyspontium
ablative Dyspontiō
vocative Dyspontium
locative Dyspontiī

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

References

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