Numantia

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Celtiberian.

Proper noun

Numantia f sg (genitive Numantiae); first declension

1. Numantia (an ancient city, and now an archaeological site, in the municipality of Garray in modern Spain)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Numantia
genitive	Numantiae
dative	Numantiae
accusative	Numantiam
ablative	Numantiā
vocative	Numantia
locative	Numantiae

Descendants

• → French: Numance (learned)
• Spanish: Numancia

References

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