Melodunum

Latin

Etymology

A Celtic/Gaulish name Melodonum, the second element from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, fort”) and the first from *mello-, *melno-, which could be from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“limb”), see also Breton mell, Irish meall (“mass, lump”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.loˈduː.num/, [mɛɫ̪ɔˈd̪uːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.loˈdu.num/, [meloˈd̪uːnum]

Proper noun

Melodūnum n sg (genitive Melodūnī); second declension

1. A town of the Senones in Gallia Lugdunensis, now Melun

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Melodūnum
genitive	Melodūnī
dative	Melodūnō
accusative	Melodūnum
ablative	Melodūnō
vocative	Melodūnum
locative	Melodūnī

References

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