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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σούνιον (Soúnion).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sūnium n sg (genitive Sūniī or Sūnī); second declension
- A promontory and town situated on the southern coast of Attica
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Sunium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sunium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Sunium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly