Bruttium

Latin

Southern Italy in 280 B.C.E.

Etymology

From Bruttiī, the name of the local tribe.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbrut.ti.um/, [ˈbrʊt̪ːiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrut.ti.um/, [ˈbrut̪ːium]

Proper noun

Bruttium n sg (genitive Bruttiī or Bruttī); second declension

1. An ancient district in southern Italy that spreads from Lucania to the Sicilian straits corresponding to the region of Calabria

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bruttium
genitive	Bruttiī Bruttī1
dative	Bruttiō
accusative	Bruttium
ablative	Bruttiō
vocative	Bruttium

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

References

• “Bruttium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly