Morgantia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Murgantia, Murgentia, Morgantium, Morgentia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μοργάντιον (Morgántion), Μοργαντίνη (Morgantínē), identified by Strabo as a pre-Roman Italic tribe. The name could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”), showing an eastern Italic sound shift.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /morˈɡan.ti.a/, [mɔrˈɡän̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /morˈɡan.t͡si.a/, [morˈɡänt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Morgantia f sg (genitive Morgantiae); first declension

1. A city in interior Sicily, situated near Catana
2. A city in Samnium, now Baselice

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Morgantia
Genitive	Morgantiae
Dative	Morgantiae
Accusative	Morgantiam
Ablative	Morgantiā
Vocative	Morgantia
Locative	Morgantiae

Derived terms

• Murgentīnī
• Murgentīnus
• Murgantius, Murgantius

References

• “Murgantĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Morgantia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Murgantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. (1940). Germany: O. R. Reisland, p. 44
• Strabo, Geographica 6.1.6