Ticinus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
The name could have meant "the runner," from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ-ino-s, from *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”).[1]
Proper noun edit
Tīcīnus m sg (genitive Tīcīnī); second declension
- The Ticino river.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Tīcīnus |
| Genitive | Tīcīnī |
| Dative | Tīcīnō |
| Accusative | Tīcīnum |
| Ablative | Tīcīnō |
| Vocative | Tīcīne |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Ticinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ticinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ticinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ L'onomastica dell'Italia antica: aspetti linguistici, storici, culturali, tipologici e classificatori. (2009). Italy: École fran-caise de Rome, p. 164