Itius
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Gaulish Ition.
Proper noun
editItius m sg (genitive Itiī or Itī); second declension
- Latin name for a sea port on the English Channel in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, though its precise location is unknown; mentioned by Julius Caesar[1]
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.2:
- Collaudatis militibus atque eis qui negotio praefuerant, quid fieri velit ostendit atque omnes ad portum Itium convenire iubet,
- Having commended the soldiers and those who had presided over the work, he informs them what he wishes to be done, and orders all the ships to assemble at port Itius,
- Collaudatis militibus atque eis qui negotio praefuerant, quid fieri velit ostendit atque omnes ad portum Itium convenire iubet,
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.5:
- His rebus constitutis Caesar ad portum Itium cum legionibus pervenit.
- These matters being settled, Caesar went to port Itius with the legions.
- His rebus constitutis Caesar ad portum Itium cum legionibus pervenit.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Itius |
Genitive | Itiī Itī1 |
Dative | Itiō |
Accusative | Itium |
Ablative | Itiō |
Vocative | Itī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
edit- “Itius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Itius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.