Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek Πηλούσιον (Pēloúsion).

Proper noun edit

Pēlūsium n sg (genitive Pēlūsiī or Pēlūsī); second declension

  1. A city of Egypt at the eastern mouth of the Nile

Declension edit

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

Case Singular
Nominative Pēlūsium
Genitive Pēlūsiī
Pēlūsī1
Dative Pēlūsiō
Accusative Pēlūsium
Ablative Pēlūsiō
Vocative Pēlūsium
Locative Pēlūsiī

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

Derived terms edit

References edit

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