Pompeii

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Borrowed from Latin Pompeiī, of Oscan origin, from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”) + the Latin name-forming suffix -eiī, a reference to its five districts.

Related to cinque, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɑːmˈpeɪ(i)/

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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.

• Pompeiian

• Pompeian

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Pompeii (urbs antiqua)

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• Pompejī

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”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pomˈpei̯.i̯iː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pomˈpe.ji/,

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)

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

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

• Pompeius

• Campānia, Vesuvius

Pompeiī m

1. genitive singular of Pompeius

• “Pompeii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press