Cantium
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Brythonic *Cantio, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkan.ti.um/, [ˈkän̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.t͡si.um/, [ˈkänt̪͡s̪ium]
Proper noun
[edit]Cantium n sg (genitive Cantiī or Cantī); second declension
- a promontory in England (now Kent)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Cantium |
genitive | Cantiī Cantī1 |
dative | Cantiō |
accusative | Cantium |
ablative | Cantiō |
vocative | Cantium |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
[edit]- Cantius (given name)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “Cantium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Cantium” in Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
- Cantium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.