Messapii

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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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.iː/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.i/,

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.

	plural
nominative	Messapiī
genitive	Messapiōrum
dative	Messapiīs
accusative	Messapiōs
ablative	Messapiīs
vocative	Messapiī
locative	Messapiīs

References

de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN

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