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English
Noun
Messapii pl (plural only)
- The Messapians.
Latin
Etymology
According to Pokorny, the Messapic name means "amid waters," from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos + *h₂ep-, the latter of which gave their region Apulia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Messapiī m pl (genitive Messapiōrum); second declension
- An Iapygian tribe that was settled in modern Apulia.
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
References
- de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN