Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πέφνος (Péphnos).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Pephnus m sg (genitive Pephnī); second declension

  1. A town of Laconia, on the eastern coast of the gulf of Messenia

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Pephnus
Genitive Pephnī
Dative Pephnō
Accusative Pephnum
Ablative Pephnō
Vocative Pephne
Locative Pephnī

References edit

  • Pephnus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly