Pompejus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pomˈpei̯.i̯us/, [pɔmˈpɛi̯ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pomˈpe.jus/, [pomˈpɛːjus]

Proper noun

Pompejus m sg (genitive Pompejī or Pompeī); second declension

1. Alternative form of Pompeius (“Pompey”)
   • Dionysii Petavii Aurelianensis Rationarium Temporum Tomus Tertius Continens Successiones Patriarcharum, Pontificum, Imperatorum, ac Regum Veteris & Novi Testamenti, Venetiis, 1722, p. 48 & 92 (a list of Roman consules):

     Successio XXXIX. Consules Romani. [...] Sextus Pompejus Pompei Magni Filius   [An. urbis] 719   [Ante Chr.] 34

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Pompejus
genitive	Pompejī Pompeī
dative	Pompejō
accusative	Pompejum
ablative	Pompejō
vocative	Pompeī

Note:

• The genitive Pompei does very rarely occur as Pompej in older texts.

References

• “Pompejus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press