Lavinium

Latin

Etymology

From Lavinia, daughter of the king of the Latins and wife of Aeneas.

Proper noun

Lāvīnium n sg (genitive Lāvīniī or Lāvīnī); second declension

1. port city near Rome, founded by Aeneas

Declension

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lāvīnium
Genitive	Lāvīniī Lāvīnī1
Dative	Lāvīniō
Accusative	Lāvīnium
Ablative	Lāvīniō
Vocative	Lāvīnium
Locative	Lāvīniī

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

Derived terms

• Lāvīnienses

Descendants

• Italian: Lavinio
• Ancient Greek: Λαουΐνιον (Laouḯnion)

References

• “Lavinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press