Dianium

See also: dianium

Latin

Etymology

From Diāna (“goddess of the hunt”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diˈaː.ni.um/, [d̪iˈäːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.ni.um/, [d̪iˈäːnium]

Proper noun

Diānium n sg (genitive Diāniī or Diānī); second declension

1. A temple in Rome consecrated to Diana
2. A town in Hispania Tarraconensis, situated near a temple of Diana
3. A small island off the coast of Etruria, now called Giannutri

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Diānium
genitive	Diāniī Diānī1
dative	Diāniō
accusative	Diānium
ablative	Diāniō
vocative	Diānium
locative	Diāniī

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

Related terms

• Diānius

References

• “Dĭāna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Dianium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Dianium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly