Cantium

Latin

Etymology

From Brythonic *Cantio, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ti.um/, [ˈkän̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.t͡si.um/, [ˈkänt̪͡s̪ium]

Proper noun

Cantium n sg (genitive Cantiī or Cantī); second declension

1. a promontory in England (now Kent)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cantium
Genitive	Cantiī Cantī1
Dative	Cantiō
Accusative	Cantium
Ablative	Cantiō
Vocative	Cantium

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

Derived terms

• Cantius (given name)

Descendants

• Italian: Canzio
• → Old English: Cent
  • English: Kent

References

• “Cantium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cantium” in Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
• Cantium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.