Patavium

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Possibly connected to the river Padus, or formed from pateo (“I increase or extend (frontiers)”), or borrowed from Gaulish *padi (“pines”), cognate with padi (“pitch pines”).^[1]

Proper noun edit

Patavium n sg (genitive Pataviī or Patavī); second declension

Padua (a city in Italy)

Declension edit

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Patavium
Genitive	Pataviī Patavī¹
Dative	Pataviō
Accusative	Patavium
Ablative	Pataviō
Vocative	Patavium
Locative	Pataviī

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

References edit

“Patavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Patavium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

^ Everett-Heath, J. (2000): Place Names of the World - Europe: Historical Context, Meanings and Changes, p. 167

[1] Everett-Heath, J. (2000): Place Names of the World - Europe: Historical Context, Meanings and Changes, p. 167

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