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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Numitōr m sg (genitive Numitōris); third declension
- (Roman mythology) a legendary king of Alba Longa, son of Procas, father of Rhea Silvia and Laurus, grandfather of Romulus and Remus, brother of Amulius by whom he was overthrown.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 6.767–770:
- proximus ille Procās, Trojānae glōria gentis
et Capys et Numitōr et quī tē nōmine reddet
Silvius Aenēās, pariter pietāte vel armīs
ēgregius, si umquam rēgnandam accēperit Albam.
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- Numitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Numitor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “Numitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press