Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek Πέσσιον (Péssion).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Pessium n sg (genitive Pessiī or Pessī); second declension

  1. a town of the Iazyges mentioned by Ptolemy

Declension edit

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

Case Singular
Nominative Pessium
Genitive Pessiī
Pessī1
Dative Pessiō
Accusative Pessium
Ablative Pessiō
Vocative Pessium
Locative Pessiī

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

References edit

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