Aunios

Latin

Ons ("Aunios"), as seen from the mainland

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Proto-Celtic *au- (“away, off”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ni.os/, [ˈäu̯niɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ni.os/, [ˈäːu̯nios]

Proper noun

Aunios f sg (genitive Auniī); second declension

1. An island off the coast of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis; now Ons Island, after Medieval Latin Aunes

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Aunios
Genitive	Auniī
Dative	Auniō
Accusative	Aunion
Ablative	Auniō
Vocative	Aunie

Descendants

• Galician: Ons

References

• Aunios in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
• E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aunios (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236355> [accessed: 01 April 2018]