Patavium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly connected to the river Padus, or formed from pateo (“I increase or extend (frontiers)”), or borrowed from Gaulish *padi (“pines”), cognate with padi (“pitch pines”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Patavium n sg (genitive Pataviī or Patavī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Patavium |
| genitive | Pataviī Patavī1 |
| dative | Pataviō |
| accusative | Patavium |
| ablative | Pataviō |
| vocative | Patavium |
| locative | Pataviī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “Patavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Patavium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Everett-Heath, J. (2000): Place Names of the World - Europe: Historical Context, Meanings and Changes, p. 167