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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὁρμίαι (Hormíai, “place of anchorage”), from ὅρμος (hórmos, “cord, chain; anchorage”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Formiae f pl (genitive Formiārum); first declension
- a city in Latium situated on the coast, between Fundi and Minturnae, now Formia
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “Formiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Formiae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Formiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.