Durius

See also: durius

Latin

Etymology

Latinized Celtic name, from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water”).

The river between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ri.us/, [ˈd̪uːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ri.us/, [ˈd̪uːrius]

Proper noun

Dūrius m sg (genitive Dūriī or Dūrī); second declension

1. Douro (a river in Portugal and Spain)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Dūrius
Genitive	Dūriī Dūrī1
Dative	Dūriō
Accusative	Dūrium
Ablative	Dūriō
Vocative	Dūrī

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

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: Doiro, Doyro
  • Portuguese: Douro
• Spanish: Duero

References

• “Durius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Durius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Durius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Durius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly