Corioli

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kóryos (“army”) << *ker-, giving a town a name similar to "army camp."

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈri.o.liː/, [kɔˈriɔlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈri.o.li/, [koˈriːoli]

Proper noun

Coriolī m pl (genitive Coriolōrum); second declension

1. A city of the Volsci in Latium conquered by the legendary general Gaius Marcius Coriolanus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Coriolī
Genitive	Coriolōrum
Dative	Coriolīs
Accusative	Coriolōs
Ablative	Coriolīs
Vocative	Coriolī
Locative	Coriolīs

Derived terms

• Coriolānī
• Coriolānus

References

• “Corioli”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Corioli in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Corioli”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly