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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly connected to the river Padus, or formed from pateo (“I increase or extend (frontiers)”), or borrowed from Gaulish *padi (“pines”), cognate with padi (“pitch pines”).[1]
Proper noun
Patavium n sg (genitive Pataviī or Patavī); second declension
- Padua (a city in Italy)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Patavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Patavium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Everett-Heath, J. (2000): Place Names of the World - Europe: Historical Context, Meanings and Changes, p. 167