Vetulonia
Italian
Etymology
From the Latin Vetulōnia.
Proper noun
Vetulonia ?
- 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) IPA(key): /u̯e.tuˈloː.ni.a/, [u̯ɛt̪ʊˈɫ̪oːniä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.tuˈlo.ni.a/, [vet̪uˈlɔːniä]
Proper noun
Vetulōnia f sg (genitive Vetulōniae); first declension
- A town in Etruria
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Silius Italicus to this entry?)
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