Cataractonium

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.rakˈto.ni.um/, [kät̪äräkˈt̪ɔniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.rakˈto.ni.um/, [kät̪äräkˈt̪ɔːnium]

Proper noun

Cataractonium n sg (genitive Cataractoniī or Cataractonī); second declension

1. a town of Britannia mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary

Declension

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cataractonium
Genitive	Cataractoniī Cataractonī1
Dative	Cataractoniō
Accusative	Cataractonium
Ablative	Cataractoniō
Vocative	Cataractonium
Locative	Cataractoniī

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

References

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