Sequana

Latin

Etymology

From a Celtic deity who descended from the Proto-Indo-European pantheon, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.kʷa.na/, [ˈs̠eːkʷänä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.kwa.na/, [ˈsɛːkwänä]

The river in Paris

Proper noun

Sēquana f sg or m sg (genitive Sēquanae); first declension

1. the Seine

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sēquana
Genitive	Sēquanae
Dative	Sēquanae
Accusative	Sēquanam
Ablative	Sēquanā
Vocative	Sēquana

Descendants

• Late Latin: Sēcona, Sēgona
  • French: Seine
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *Sīganu, *Sīgunu
    • Old English: Sīgen
    • Old Saxon: Sīgana
    • Old High German: Sīgona, Sīgana
  • Sicilian: Sigona

Further reading

• “Sequana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sequana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.