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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σαμώνιον (Samṓnion).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Samōnium n sg (genitive Samōniī or Samōnī); second declension
- the eastern promontory of the island of Crete, modern Greece
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Sammonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Samonium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Sammonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.