Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Unclear, but probably of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Novēsium n sg (genitive Novēsiī or Novēsī); second declension

  1. A town on the Rhine, now Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Declension edit

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

Case Singular
Nominative Novēsium
Genitive Novēsiī
Novēsī1
Dative Novēsiō
Accusative Novēsium
Ablative Novēsiō
Vocative Novēsium
Locative Novēsiī

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

Descendants edit

  • Old High German: Nuiss

References edit

  • Novesium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Novesium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly