Latin

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Southern Italy in 280 B.C.E.

Etymology

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From Bruttiī, the name of the local tribe.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Bruttium n sg (genitive Bruttiī or Bruttī); second declension

  1. An ancient district in southern Italy that spreads from Lucania to the Sicilian straits corresponding to the region of Calabria

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Bruttium
Genitive Bruttiī
Bruttī1
Dative Bruttiō
Accusative Bruttium
Ablative Bruttiō
Vocative Bruttium

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

References

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  • Bruttium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly