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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πηλούσιον (Pēloúsion).
Proper noun
Pēlūsium n sg (genitive Pēlūsiī or Pēlūsī); second declension
- A city of Egypt at the eastern mouth of the Nile
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
References
- “Pelusium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pelusium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Pelusium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly