Mopsium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μόψιον (Mópsion).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmop.si.um/, [ˈmɔps̠iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmop.si.um/, [ˈmɔpsium]
Proper noun
[edit]Mopsium n sg (genitive Mopsiī or Mopsī); second declension
- A town and a hill of Thessaly
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Mopsium |
| genitive | Mopsiī Mopsī1 |
| dative | Mopsiō |
| accusative | Mopsium |
| ablative | Mopsiō |
| vocative | Mopsium |
| locative | Mopsiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “Mopsium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Mopsium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Mopsium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly