Perusia

See also: Perúsia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Perusia. Doublet of Perugia.

Proper noun

Perusia

2. (historical) An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.
   • 2005, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, page 455:

     That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia.

   • 2007, Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium, Oxford University Press, page 358:

     Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.¹²⁶ This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;¹²⁷ but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class.

   • 2007, Basil Dufallo, The Ghosts of the Past, Ohio State University Press, page 95:

     The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him^[Propertius] a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.

Derived terms

• Perusine
• Perusinian

Further reading

• Etruscan cities on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Perusine War on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Piraeus, Piræus, raise up, spuriae, upraise

Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈru.si.a/, [pɛˈrʊs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈru.si.a/, [peˈruːs̬iä]

Proper noun

Perusia f sg (genitive Perusiae); first declension

1. (historical) Perusia (An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Perusia
genitive	Perusiae
dative	Perusiae
accusative	Perusiam
ablative	Perusiā
vocative	Perusia
locative	Perusiae

Derived terms

• Perusīnī
• Perusīnum
• Perusīnus

References

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