Bruttium
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin Bruttium.
Proper noun
Bruttium
- (historical) A former district of southern Italy in the time of the Roman Empire.
Latin
Etymology
From Bruttiī, the name of the local tribe.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbrʊt.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbrut.ti.um]
Proper noun
Bruttium n sg (genitive Bruttiī or Bruttī); second declension
- an ancient district in southern Italy that spreads from Lucania to the Sicilian straits corresponding to the region of Calabria
- (New Latin) Calabria (a region in southern Italy)
- Synonym: Calabria
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Bruttium |
| genitive | Bruttiī Bruttī1 |
| dative | Bruttiō |
| accusative | Bruttium |
| ablative | Bruttiō |
| vocative | Bruttium |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
See also
References
- “Bruttium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly