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Latin
Etymology
From Gaulish Ition.
Proper noun
Itius m sg (genitive Itiī or Itī); second declension
- Latin name for a sea port on the English Channel in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, though its precise location is unknown; mentioned by Julius Caesar[1]
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.2:
- Collaudatis militibus atque eis qui negotio praefuerant, quid fieri velit ostendit atque omnes ad portum Itium convenire iubet,
- Having commended the soldiers and those who had presided over the work, he informs them what he wishes to be done, and orders all the ships to assemble at port Itius,
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Itius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Itius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.2, 5.5