Sturnium

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstuːr.ni.um/, [ˈs̠t̪uːrniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstur.ni.um/, [ˈst̪urnium]

Proper noun

Stūrnium n sg (genitive Stūrniī or Stūrnī); second declension

1. A town in interior Calabria

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Stūrnium
genitive	Stūrniī Stūrnī1
dative	Stūrniō
accusative	Stūrnium
ablative	Stūrniō
vocative	Stūrnium
locative	Stūrniī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Stūrnīnī
• Stūrnīnus

References

• “Sturnīni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sturnium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly