Vibo Valentia

English

Proper noun

Vibo Valentia

1. A province of Calabria, Italy.

Translations

province

• Italian: Vibo Valentia (it)
• Sicilian: Vibbu Valenzia f

Italian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.bo vaˈlɛn.t͡sja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntsja
• Hyphenation: Vì‧bo Va‧lèn‧tia

Proper noun

Vibo Valentia f

1. A province of Calabria, Italy

Related terms

• vibonese

Latin

Alternative forms

• Vibō, Hippōnium, Valentia (Classical Latin)

Etymology

Latinization of Italian Vibo Valentia, itself a Classicalizing compound of the Latin names Vibō and Valentia. The former name of the city, in Italian Monteleone, was Mons Leōnis

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.boː u̯aˈlen.ti.a/, [ˈu̯ɪboː u̯äˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.bo vaˈlen.t͡si.a/, [ˈviːbo väˈlɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Vibō Valentia f sg (variously declined, genitive Vibōnis Valentiae); third declension, first declension

1. (Contemporary Latin) Vibo Valentia (a town in Calabria, Italy)
   • 1710, Giuseppe Bisogni de Gatti, Hipponii, seu Vibonis Valentiae, vel Montisleonis, page 58:

     Ipsius verò Vibonis Valentiæ totus murorum ambitus, secundum Mazzella in historia Regni, & Capialbum de Monteleone, ad octo mill. pass. colligit, […]

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   • 1878, Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum ad archetyporum et librorum fidem, page 106:

     nota in nummis Bruttiorum oppidi Vibonis Valentiae quod nunc Monteleone vocatur posita.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1890, Inscriptiones Graecae: Inscriptiones Italiae et Siciliae ..., page 156:

     Inventa prope Vibonis Valentiae portum a. 1835, nunc cum aliis in meo museo adservatur CAP.

Declension

Third-declension noun with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vibō Valentia
Genitive	Vibōnis Valentiae
Dative	Vibōnī Valentiae
Accusative	Vibōnem Valentiam
Ablative	Vibōne Valentiā
Vocative	Vibō Valentia
Locative	Vibōnī Valentiae Vibōne Valentiae