Vetulonia

Italian

Etymology

From the Latin Vetulōnia.

Proper noun

Vetulonia ?

1. a part of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany; once an Etruscan town

Further reading

• Vetulonia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Latin

Etymology

vetulus (“little old”, adjective) +‎ -ōnia ≈ “little old town”

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯e.tuˈloː.ni.a/, [u̯ɛt̪ʊˈɫ̪oːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.tuˈlo.ni.a/, [vet̪uˈlɔːniä]

Proper noun

Vetulōnia f sg (genitive Vetulōniae); first declension

1. A town in Etruria

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Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vetulōnia
Genitive	Vetulōniae
Dative	Vetulōniae
Accusative	Vetulōniam
Ablative	Vetulōniā
Vocative	Vetulōnia
Locative	Vetulōniae

Derived terms

• Vetulōniēnsēs
• Vetulōniī

Descendants

• Italian: Vetulonia

References

• “Vĕtŭlōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press