Tolumnius

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Etruscan [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /toˈlum.ni.us/, [t̪ɔˈɫ̪ʊmniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /toˈlum.ni.us/, [t̪oˈlumnius]

Proper noun

Tolumnius m sg (genitive Tolumniī or Tolumnī); second declension

1. A king of Veii
2. (Roman mythology) A soothsayer of the Rutuli

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tolumnius
genitive	Tolumniī Tolumnī1
dative	Tolumniō
accusative	Tolumnium
ablative	Tolumniō
vocative	Tolumnī

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

References

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