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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Παραιτόνιον (Paraitónion).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Paraetonium n sg (genitive Paraetoniī or Paraetonī); second declension
- Mersa Matruh (a port city in modern Egypt)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Paraetonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Paraetonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Paraetonium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly