Lopadusa

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λοπαδοῦσσα (Lopadoûssa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lo.paˈduː.sa/, [ɫ̪ɔpäˈd̪uːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lo.paˈdu.sa/, [lopäˈd̪uːs̬ä]

Proper noun

Lopadūsa f sg (genitive Lopadūsae); first declension

1. Lampedusa (the largest island of the Pelagie Islands, owned by Italy and located between Malta and Tunisia)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Lopadūsa
genitive	Lopadūsae
dative	Lopadūsae
accusative	Lopadūsam
ablative	Lopadūsā
vocative	Lopadūsa
locative	Lopadūsae

References

• “Lopadusa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lŏpădūsa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 921/2.

Further reading

• Lopadusa on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la