Avenio

Latin

Alternative forms

• Avenniō

Etymology

Also spelled as Avennĭo, from Old Latin Auenion, a Celtic/Ancient Ligurian name ultimately from a pre-Latin/pre-Indo-European substrate hydronym ab-ên, followed by the suffix -i-ōn(e); compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”). Found in Ancient Greek as Аὐενιὼν (Аueniṑn) (Strabo), Άουεννίων (Áouenníōn) (Ptolemy).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈu̯e.ni.oː/, [äˈu̯ɛnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈve.ni.o/, [äˈvɛːnio]

Proper noun

Aveniō f sg (genitive Aveniōnis); third declension

1. A town in Gallia Narbonensis, in the territory of the Cavares, now Avignon

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aveniō
genitive	Aveniōnis
dative	Aveniōnī
accusative	Aveniōnem
ablative	Aveniōne
vocative	Aveniō
locative	Aveniōnī Aveniōne

Derived terms

• Avennicus

References

• “Avenio”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Avenio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Dauzat, Albert; Rostaing, Charles (1963). Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France (in French). Paris: Larousse.
• Rostaing, Charles (1994) [1950]. Essai sur la toponymie de la Provence : depuis les origines jusqu'aux invasions barbares (in French). Marseille: Jeanne Laffitte