Carambucis

Latin

View of the river

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈram.bu.kis/, [käˈrämbʊkɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈram.bu.t͡ʃis/, [käˈrämbut͡ʃis]

Proper noun

Carambucis m sg (genitive Carambucis); third declension

1. A river of Scythia mentioned by Pliny, probably the Northern Dvina River
   • 1840, Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, Origines Germanicae: commentatio prima, Volume 1 , (page 96):

     Promontorium Lytarmim et fluvium Carambucim etiam Graeco quodam ex fonte Plinium tulisse

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Carambucis
genitive	Carambucis
dative	Carambucī
accusative	Carambucim
ablative	Carambucī
vocative	Carambucis

References

• Carambucis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Lytarnis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly