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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Μοργάντιον (Morgántion), Μοργαντίνη (Morgantínē), identified by Strabo as a pre-Roman Italic tribe. The name could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”), showing an eastern Italic sound shift.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Morgantia f sg (genitive Morgantiae); first declension
- A city in interior Sicily, situated near Catana
- A city in Samnium, now Baselice
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Murgantĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Morgantia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Murgantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. (1940). Germany: O. R. Reisland, p. 44
- Strabo, Geographica 6.1.6