Isca Silurum

Latin

Etymology

From Isca (“city on the Usk”), with the local tribe Silurēs used to distinguish it from the similarly named Isca Dumnōniōrum (“Exeter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka ˈsi.lu.rum/, [ˈɪs̠kä ˈs̠ɪɫ̪ʊrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka ˈsi.lu.rum/, [ˈiskä ˈsiːlurum]

Proper noun

Isca Silurum f sg (genitive Iscae Silurum); first declension

1. (historical) Synonym of Isca Augusta, Caerleon on the Usk

Declension

First-declension noun with an indeclinable portion, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Isca Silurum
genitive	Iscae Silurum
dative	Iscae Silurum
accusative	Iscam Silurum
ablative	Iscā Silurum
vocative	Isca Silurum
locative	Iscae Silurum

References

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