Olisipo

• Ulisippō, Olisippō, Olysippō, Ulysippō, Olysīpō

Unknown origin, possibly from a Paleo-Hispanic (likely Tartessian) word for the Tagus, via Phoenician. Some spelling variants are due to the folk etymology connecting the name of the town with Ulixēs/Ulyssēs (“Odysseus”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.lɪˈsiː.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.liˈs̬iː.po]

Olisīpō f sg or m sg (genitive Olisīpōnis); third declension

1. Lisbon (a city in modern Portugal)

• The gender is unattested. Some dictionaries list this words as masculine (Lewis and Short, Gaffiot) and some as feminine (Kraft and Forbiger, Oxford Latin Dictionary).

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• olisīpōnēnsis

• “Olisipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Olisipo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Olisīpō” on page 1246 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Friedrich Karl Kraft and M. Albert Forbiger, Neues deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch, Leipzig, 1826, page 1403 (in an appendix of geographical names entitled "Geographischer Anhang"): "Liſſabon, (Lisboa), Olissipo (Ulisippo, Olisipo), onis, f. Plin. Lisbona."

Olisipo f

1. alternative form of Olissipo