Sequana
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Celtic deity who descended from the Proto-Indo-European pantheon,[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈseː.kʷa.na/, [ˈs̠eːkʷänä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.kwa.na/, [ˈsɛːkwänä]
Proper noun
[edit]Sēquana f sg or m sg (genitive Sēquanae); first declension
- The Seine (a major river in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Grand Est, Île-de-France and Normandy regions, France)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Sēquana |
genitive | Sēquanae |
dative | Sēquanae |
accusative | Sēquanam |
ablative | Sēquanā |
vocative | Sēquana |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ellis, The Ancient World of the Celts
Further reading
[edit]- “Sequana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sequana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Celtic languages
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin masculine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin nouns with multiple genders
- la:Rivers in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- la:Rivers in France
- la:Rivers in Grand Est
- la:Rivers in Île-de-France
- la:Rivers in Normandy
- la:Places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- la:Places in France
- la:Places in Grand Est
- la:Places in Île-de-France
- la:Places in Normandy
- la:Rivers