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Latin
Etymology
Named after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who founded it as a military base for his operations in western Iberia, during the Sertorian War.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Metellīnum n sg (genitive Metellīnī); second declension
- A town of Lusitania on the Anas, now Medellín
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
References
- Metellinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Metellinum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly