Artemisium

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμίσιον (Artemísion).

Proper noun

Artemisium

1. A cape in the north of the island of Euboea, Greece.

Translations

a cape north of Euboea, Greece

• Portuguese: Artemísio m

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑ́σιον (Artemī́sion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.um/, [ärt̪ɛˈmiːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.um/, [ärt̪eˈmiːs̬ium]

Proper noun

Artemīsium n sg (genitive Artemīsiī or Artemīsī); second declension

1. A cape in the north of the island of Euboea, Greece
2. A mountain forming the boundary between Argolis and Arcadia in modern Greece
3. a fortress in Macedonia built at the mouth of the river Rechius, in modern Greece
4. A promontory in Caria, in modern Turkey

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Artemīsium
genitive	Artemīsiī Artemīsī1
dative	Artemīsiō
accusative	Artemīsium
ablative	Artemīsiō
vocative	Artemīsium

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

Further reading

• “Artemisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Artemisium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Artemisium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.