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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Italic *teiba, or borrowed from Sabine tēba (“hill”). Or could be related to Tiberis and the praenomen Tiberius.[1] In Roman lore, the city was said to have been named for Tīburtus, son of the city's founder Catillus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tībur n sg (genitive Tīburis); third declension
- A town in Latium, seated on the Anio; modern Tivoli.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Tibur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tibur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Tibur”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Chase, George Davis (1897). "The Origin of Roman Praenomina". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. VIII.
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DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992.