Paraetonium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Παραιτόνιον (Paraitónion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.rae̯ˈto.ni.um/, [päräe̯ˈt̪ɔniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.reˈto.ni.um/, [päreˈt̪ɔːnium]

Proper noun

Paraetonium n sg (genitive Paraetoniī or Paraetonī); second declension

1. Mersa Matruh (a port city in modern Egypt)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Paraetonium
Genitive	Paraetoniī Paraetonī1
Dative	Paraetoniō
Accusative	Paraetonium
Ablative	Paraetoniō
Vocative	Paraetonium
Locative	Paraetoniī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “Paraetonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Paraetonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Paraetonium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly