Beneventum

See also: beneventum

Latin

Etymology

From bene ventum, probably an avoidance term from an earlier Maleventum, named due to the bad air.

Proper noun

Beneventum n sg (genitive Beneventī); second declension

1. Benevento (a city in Italy)

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Beneventum
genitive	Beneventī
dative	Beneventō
accusative	Beneventum
ablative	Beneventō
vocative	Beneventum
locative	Beneventī

Descendants

• English: Beneventum
• Italian: Benevento
  • English: Benevento
• Ancient Greek: Βενεουεντόν (Beneouentón)

References

• “Beneventum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beneventum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.