Aquilonia

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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Particularly: “From aquilōnius (“northerly”)?”

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /a.kʷiˈloː.ni.a/, [äkʷɪˈɫ̪oːniä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.kwiˈlo.ni.a/, [äkwiˈlɔːniä]

Proper noun edit

Aquilōnia f sg (genitive Aquilōniae); first declension

a town of the Hirpini, upon the river Aufidus, now Lacedonia
(Can we find and add a quotation of Livy to this entry?)

Declension edit

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Aquilōnia
Genitive	Aquilōniae
Dative	Aquilōniae
Accusative	Aquilōniam
Ablative	Aquilōniā
Vocative	Aquilōnia
Locative	Aquilōniae

Derived terms edit

Aquilōnī

References edit

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