Segni
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Italian
Etymology
Habitational surname from Segni in Lazio, from Latin Signia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Segni m or f by sense
- a surname
- Antonio Segni, Italian politician and fourth President of Italy
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Segnī m pl (genitive Segnōrum); second declension
- a Germanic tribe of Gallia Belgica, between the Eburones and Treviri, now Signei, near Condroy,
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.32:
- Segni Condrusique, ex gente et numero Germanorum, qui sunt inter Eburones Treverosque, legatos ad Caesarem miserunt oratum, ne se in hostium numero duceret neve omnium Germanorum, qui essent citra Rhenum, unam esse causam iudicaret: nihil se de bello cogitavisse, nulla Ambiorigi auxilia misisse.
- The Segui and Condrusi, of the nation and number of the Germans, and who are between the Eburones and the Treviri, sent embassadors to Caesar to entreat that he would not regard them in the number of his enemies, nor consider that the cause of all the Germans on this side the Rhine was one and the same; that they had formed no plans of war, and had sent no auxiliaries to Ambiorix.
- Segni Condrusique, ex gente et numero Germanorum, qui sunt inter Eburones Treverosque, legatos ad Caesarem miserunt oratum, ne se in hostium numero duceret neve omnium Germanorum, qui essent citra Rhenum, unam esse causam iudicaret: nihil se de bello cogitavisse, nulla Ambiorigi auxilia misisse.
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Segnī |
| genitive | Segnōrum |
| dative | Segnīs |
| accusative | Segnōs |
| ablative | Segnīs |
| vocative | Segnī |
References
- Segni in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Segni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Segni”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly