Agyrium
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἀγύριον (Agúrion), whence also the name of its tyrant, Ἄγυρις (Águris).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈɡy.ri.um/, [äˈɡʏriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈd͡ʒi.ri.um/, [äˈd͡ʒiːrium]
Proper noun edit
Agyrium n sg (genitive Agyriī or Agyrī); second declension
- Agira/San Filippo d'Argiriò, a former Sicel city near Enna, Sicily later colonized by the Greeks before its occupation by the Romans, birthplace of Diodorus Siculus
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Agyrium |
| Genitive | Agyriī Agyrī1 |
| Dative | Agyriō |
| Accusative | Agyrium |
| Ablative | Agyriō |
| Vocative | Agyrium |
| Locative | Agyriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italian: Agira
References edit
- “Agȳrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Agyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Agyrium” on page 101/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)