Pompeii

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See also: Pompei

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pompeii, from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”), a reference to its five districts. Doublet of five, cinque, punch, and pimp.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɑːmˈpeɪ(i)/

Proper noun

Pompeii

  1. A ruined Roman town in Italy, destroyed by Vesuvius (a volcano) in AD 79.
  2. A city and commune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.

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Latin

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Karl Bryullov's The Last Day of Pompeii (1830-3)
Jakob Philipp Hackert's The Excavations at Pompeii (1799)

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Oscan , from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”) +‎ -eius. A reference to the city's five districts, from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also the gens name Pompeius and quīnque, the native word for “five”.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pompeiī m pl (genitive Pompeiōrum); second declension

  1. Pompeii (a maritime city in the south of Campania, overwhelmed by an eruption of Vesuvius, A.D. 79)

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Pompeiī
Genitive Pompeiōrum
Dative Pompeiīs
Accusative Pompeiōs
Ablative Pompeiīs
Vocative Pompeiī
Locative Pompeiīs

Derived terms

  • Pompeiānī m pl (“inhabitants of Pompeii”, noun)
  • Pompeiānum n (“a villa of Cicero near Pompeii”, noun)
  • Pompeiānus (“of, belonging to Pompeii”, adjective)

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Proper noun

Pompeiī m

  1. genitive singular of Pompeius

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