Sufetula

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Etymology

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Proper noun

Sufetula f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Crambidae – certain moths.

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English

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Proper noun

Sufetula

  1. (history) An ancient Roman and Byzantine town in the North African province Creta et Cyrenaica, near present-day Sbeitla, Tunisia.
    • 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 5, published 1866, page 238:
      The præfect himself was slain by the hand of Zobeir: his daughter, who sought revenge and death, was surrounded and made prisoner; and the fugitives involved in their disaster the town of Sufetula, to which they escaped from the sabres and lances of the Arabs.
    • 2007, Gareth Sears, Late Roman African Urbanism: Continuity and transformation in the city, page 55:
      Its presence in the very centre of the town certainly emphasises the dominance of Christianity at Sufetula from at least the fourth century onwards.
    • 2010, Donna Wheeler, Paul Clammer, Emilie Filou, Tunisia, Lonely Planet, page 176:
      Out in the middle of nowhere on the plains 107km southwest of Kairouan and 38km east of Kasserine, Sbeitla is home to the evocative ancient town of Sufetula, famous for its remarkably preserved Roman temples.

Latin

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Proper noun

Sufetula f sg (genitive Sufetulae); first declension

  1. A town in Africa, now Sbeitla

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Sufetula
genitive Sufetulae
dative Sufetulae
accusative Sufetulam
ablative Sufetulā
vocative Sufetula
locative Sufetulae

References

  • Sufetula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly