Rhenus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Gaulish *Reinos (Proto-Celtic *reinos), built on Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈreː.nus/, [ˈreːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.nus/, [ˈrɛːnus]
Proper noun
[edit]Rhēnus m sg (genitive Rhēnī); second declension
- Rhine (a river).
- Tacitus, Gemanica, chapter 1 (Oxford revised translation)
- Germania omnis a Gallis Rhaetisque et Pannoniis Rheno et Danubio fluminibus.
- Germany is separated from Gaul, Rhaetia, and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube.
- Germania omnis a Gallis Rhaetisque et Pannoniis Rheno et Danubio fluminibus.
- Tacitus, Gemanica, chapter 1 (Oxford revised translation)
- Reno (a river in Italy).
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Rhēnus |
genitive | Rhēnī |
dative | Rhēnō |
accusative | Rhēnum |
ablative | Rhēnō |
vocative | Rhēne |
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “Rhenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Rhenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms borrowed from Gaulish
- Latin terms derived from Gaulish
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Rivers
- la:Rivers in Italy
- la:Places in Italy