Aquilonia

Latin

Etymology

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Particularly: “From aquilōnius (“northerly”)?”

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.kʷiˈloː.ni.a/, [äkʷɪˈɫ̪oːniä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.kwiˈlo.ni.a/, [äkwiˈlɔːniä]

Proper noun

Aquilōnia f sg (genitive Aquilōniae); first declension

a town of the Hirpini, upon the river Aufidus, now Lacedonia
(Can we find and add a quotation of Livy to this entry?)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aquilōnia
genitive	Aquilōniae
dative	Aquilōniae
accusative	Aquilōniam
ablative	Aquilōniā
vocative	Aquilōnia
locative	Aquilōniae

Derived terms

Aquilōnī

References

“Ăquĭlōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press