Tauromenium

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ταυρομένιον (Tauroménion).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tau̯.roˈme.ni.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tau̯.roˈme.ni.um/,

Proper noun

Tauromenium n sg (genitive Tauromeniī or Tauromenī); second declension

A city in Sicily, situated between Messana and Catana, now Taormina

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tauromenium
genitive	Tauromeniī Tauromenī¹
dative	Tauromeniō
accusative	Tauromenium
ablative	Tauromeniō
vocative	Tauromenium
locative	Tauromeniī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Tauromenitānus

Descendants

Italian: Taormina

References

“Tauromenium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Tauromenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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